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cartoons, I’m
sure I can find you something from our extensive selection.”
    He led her through another coded door. Delicate
Oriental music chimed through discreet speakers. When her eyes acclimatized to
the low lighting, she saw massage beds grouped in intimate pairs and surrounded
by fat, unlit candles. A hostess, dressed in a short indigo tank dress with
gold piping, appeared from behind a discreet curtain and bowed.
    “Our masseuses offer a whole range of
therapies,” Zachary explained in a low voice. “All you need to do is ask and
it’ll be done. Travelling, even in the lap of luxury, can be quite exhausting,”
he murmured. “What better way to relax than with a massage, either individually
or with someone special?” His voice reeked pure sex.
    On the one hand, Bethany was relieved that
his frosty anger had receded, but he was back to his sexily lethal self, and as
she glanced at him and saw his narrow-eyed gaze on her, she knew relief was the
last thing she should be feeling.
    The last space he showed her blew her
clean away. They stood at the nearest point to the nose of the plane. Before
her, she had a clear one hundred and eighty degree view of the sky. Since they
were only an hour into their trip and clear of the clouds below, all Bethany
could see was pure blue sky. She leaned against the railing in front of her and
stretched up on her toes to get a better view.
    “Wow,” she breathed.
    He leaned in behind her, his hands on
either side of hers on the railing. He caged her in just as he’d done in his
office and her breath stalled in her throat as he came in close.
    “I’ll bring you up here in a few hours
just before the sun goes down,” he said in a low voice, which pulsed with dark,
sultry promise even when he wasn’t saying anything sexual. “It’s incredible to
see the sky just before the stars come out.”
    She’d heard Keely go ape-shit over some
actor’s voice, but Bethany had never experienced sexual arousal over a man’s
voice. Until now. She felt a low drag in her stomach
and wished he would keep speaking just so she could melt in that voice.
    “I’d…I’d really like that.”
    “Good.” They stayed like that for
several minutes, watching the view in warm silence as the jet raced east. With
her every breath, she got more and more caught up in his scent, in the essence
of Zach Savage and the incredible things his aura did to her.
    “I didn’t mean to pry into your life
earlier.” He stopped and she felt him shake his head. “No, scratch that. I
meant to do exactly that.”
    “Why?” she asked.
    “Because I want to know every single
detail about you, Bethany. I won’t apologize if that seems excessive or forward;
it’s the truth.”
    Her breath caught and her grip on the
railing tightened. She felt as if she were swaying even though she didn’t move.
“You really don’t believe in sugar-coating your words, do you?”
    “There’s no room for ambivalence in my
life. I’m required to make huge decisions every day. I can’t afford to mince my
words.”
    “But surely that applies in your
business life, not your private one?” she asked, still unable to move from
where he’d imprisoned her.
    He moved closer still, until his pelvis
brushed against her ass. Heat flushed through her. She looked down at their
hands, her delicate ones next to his strong and powerful grip. So close and yet
not touching.
    “When it comes right down to it, the
same principles apply in all areas of my life. I won’t mislead you into
thinking this is something more or less than it is or will ever be. I want you.
I intend to have you and I’ll do whatever it takes to achieve that goal,
including finding out everything I can about you. You can help by answering my
questions.”
    “You know, you could simply state that
you’d like to get to know me, and let this thing evolve more naturally.”
    His small exhalation of breath told her
he was smiling. She kept her gaze focused forward. They