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Max said nothing, but his eyes were hooded and heavy. ‘Perhaps this will make you understand how highly desirable you are, Alex, for once and for all.’ And he put his arms around her.

She stood frozen in the circle of them as his heavy blue gaze followed the line of her throat.

It was everything she’d dreamt about, their kiss. The taste, the feel, the joy at the sheer fineness of Max Goodwin, in all his tall, beautifully built splendour, thrilled her and filled her with exquisite sensations. But not only that. With the feeling that to be in his arms was like no other place on earth.

And all the complications of loving Max Goodwin melted away as if they’d never existed…

When he raised his head abruptly she thought it was so he could say something personal and intimate that would put the perfect seal on their togetherness.

He didn’t. He stared down at her, and she could see his tortured expression before he closed his eyes briefly and then put her away from him.

The look in his eyes was brooding and sombre. ‘I should never have done that.’