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“You can’t be mine,” Aristos rasped, his gaze tracking her. “You want my list again? I don’t do relationships, Alex. My affairs are short-lived—commitment-free in nature. You are off-limits.”
Оглавление“What if I did? Want that, I mean?”
His gaze narrowed. “You are a princess. Third in line to the throne, in case you’d forgotten. I’m supposed to be protecting you.”
“There’s no threat here,” she derided. “The only thing you’re protecting me from is you.”
“Damn right.”
She took a deep breath. Maybe the deepest she’d ever taken. Lifted her chin. “What you said last night…”
He gave her a suspicious look. “Which part would that be?”
“The incendiary part. I would…like that.”
His eyes widened. He set his glass down on the railing. “Are you trying to destroy my head?”
She shook her head. “I’m suggesting, as you said, that we do what we both want to do. Nobody needs to know.”
A long moment passed. “Just so we’re clear,” he ventured in a silky voice. “You’re suggesting we have an affair? Confined to this island?”
“Yes.”
