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‘I want to be alone with you, Cleo.’

Cleo sucked in a sharp breath. ‘Why?’ she blurted out before she could stop herself.

‘You know why,’ Bryon said quietly.

‘You...you want to have sex with me?’ It sounded incredible once she’d said it out loud. Cleo knew she wanted to have sex with him but had never imagined her desire was returned.

‘Yes, of course I do.’

His casual admission took her breath away. It also angered her.

‘I’ve wanted to have sex with you since thirty seconds after I met you,’ he added with a rueful smile in his voice and on his face.

If his earlier admission had taken her breath away, this one left her speechless.

‘Are you going to say something?’ he queried when she just sat there in stunned silence for several seconds.

‘But why?’

‘Why?’ he echoed thoughtfully. ‘Perhaps it’s because I glimpsed the real you underneath the drab facade.’

‘The real me?’ What on earth was he talking about?

‘The one who stared at me for a split second like I was a drink of water after a long and dusty desert trek.’

‘Oh,’ she said, embarrassed now.

‘There’s nothing more desirable,’ he said, ‘than a woman who wants you despite herself.’