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‘Mistress,’ Nikolai slotted in, cool as ice.

‘But we don’t even know each other,’ Ella framed dazedly. ‘You’re a stranger.’

‘If you live with me I won’t be a stranger for long,’ Nikolai pointed out, with monumental calm.

The very sound of that inhuman calm forced her to flip round and settle distraught eyes on his lean, darkly handsome face. ‘You can’t be serious about this.’

‘I assure you that I am deadly serious. Move in and I’ll forget your family’s debts.’

‘But it’s a crazy idea!’ She gasped the words, floundering against his restrained silence. It was obvious that he was determined to behave as though such a proposition was an everyday occurrence.

‘It’s not crazy to me,’ Nikolai asserted. ‘When I want anything I go after it—hard and fast.’

Did he want her like that? Enough to trace her, buy up her father’s debts and try to buy the rights to her body along with those debts? The very idea of that made her dizzy, and plunged her brain into even greater turmoil.

‘It’s immoral … it’s blackmail …’

‘It’s definitely not blackmail. I’m giving you the benefit of a choice you didn’t have before I came through that door,’ Nikolai Drakos said with glittering cool. ‘That choice is yours to make.’