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of the pins she’d haphazardly stuck in this morning before rushing out the door again. “An aberration that cannot happen again.”

He leaned back in his leather chair again, but the heat in his eyes was still there. “Why not?”

She sighed and looked down at her hands. “Because this is important to me, Davis. I…” she stammered, not sure what to say. “I can’t really explain it, nor can I convince you but I’m asking you to respect that we can’t sleep together.”

He thought about her statement for a long moment. “Fine, we won’t sleep. We didn’t do much of that last night anyway.”

Kate held her breath, trying hard not to react but she could feel her cheeks turning pink once more. “I’m going to start looking into the files you sent me. I’ll be able to understand your accounting processes better once I’ve gone through all of them carefully.”

Davis watched and listened. He heard her rapid breathing and understood that she didn’t want to talk about last night. Even though it was obviously on both of their minds. But that was okay, he thought. There was always tonight. And the next night. And many more nights to come. He wasn’t going to be put off by her nervousness about a physical relationship with him. But he would eventually understand why she was hesitant so he could overcome or fix her concerns. He knew that getting to know her was the best way to find out why she was resistant.

She needed space, he thought. But he wasn’t going to give her too much space. She was simply too fascinating to ignore.

He picked up his papers again and reviewed all the information with one part of his brain. The other half was working through what he knew about her from their conversation last night as well as the report his security team had given him. There were several important gaps that they were trying to investigate and he would be most interested when they finally discovered what those gaps were filled with. He suspected that his beautiful Kate was a much more complex woman than he’d originally suspected.

He didn’t completely understand it, but he accepted that Kate was different. He wanted her in a deeper, more insistent way than the other women he’d been with. It was more than just incredible sex, but that was definitely part of it. No, there was more. And until he figured it out, until he understood why Kate was so important, he would make sure that she stayed close.

Chapter 5

“So we’re agreed. We’ll maintain a professional relationship. I’m here to help you find a criminal and you’re going to…” The plane had landed in Denver and the two of them were walking across the tarmac towards the waiting limousine where a uniformed driver was waiting with the door open. She’d stopped because she didn’t completely understand what Davis’ company did. He was the head honcho, she understood that plainly enough. And she grasped that he was brilliant and disgustingly wealthy. But beyond that, she was clueless.

“No,” he stated firmly, walking right beside her and keeping a hand on the small of her back. “You’re going to try and pretend that we only have a professional relationship. I’m going to do everything in my power to make you understand that we have more than that.” He nodded for her to step into the back of the waiting limousine, his eyes looking down at her with a challenging light.

Her lips compressed but she had no choice. She could either go back to Boston and admit to her father what she’d done, or get into the car and finish this task to the best of her abilities. “We’re not having sex,” she stated emphatically before she stepped into the car. And she felt very proud for having the last word. Her goal of not talking to him about this issue was helped by the ringing of his cell phone, which seemed to be her savior lately.

She admired him for his conscientious attitude towards work. And she thoroughly enjoyed listening to him speak in French about some oil prices or chemicals…her high school French really wasn’t up to the challenge of translating his conversation. He was so professional, so succinct. He didn’t let emotions get in the way of business.

She wanted to be just like him. She had to be professional and courteous but keep her distance. Her father would expect nothing less of her. She had to do this!

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