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vulnerability had washed over him, waiting for her verdict.
How endearing.
    â€˜I, em …’ Sensible Sadie was tugging at her conscience –
refuse, young lady. Get out of here.
But Fun Sadie was winning the battle. Right now she should be heading back to a computer file full of facts and figures, budgets and cash flow forecasts. But she felt magnetised to the spot. The epitome of torn.
    But you know every word already. Every page, every projection.
    Maybe a little ‘r and r’ tonight would help her get centred for tomorrow – help her go all-out to impress the investor, the top man himself. All she had to do was make him like her and want to invest in her. And who didn’t like Sadie? This Mac guy certainly did – she’d felt it in his body, seen it in his eyes.
    â€˜I’m not sure. I’ve got people to see—’
    â€˜Places to go, yes I know,’ he added. ‘But I’m still asking.’
    A loud ‘fairy tale’ alert was ringing in her ears. The thought of getting up close and personal with this sexy stranger was like her purest fantasy. But this wasn’t a fantasy – it was real life. Although, come to think of it, the whole of the last month had been something of a dream … so why break the spell now? Winning a competition, jetting off to far-flung corners of the earth to pick up her prize, and beginning the helter-skelter business ride she was now clinging onto by her fingertips. So why not add a fling?
No one would know.
And if she didn’t do it now, it might be months – years – before she got another chance for a no-strings encounter like this. If indeed, that was what he was offering.
    â€˜Well?’ he asked.
    â€˜A-are you always such a quick worker?’ she gasped.
    â€˜Only with anyone in a tight navy suit and very inappropriate footwear.’
    â€˜Even the women?’
    He laughed.
    â€˜Mac – I need you – now, please!’ came the Captain’s voice again.
    â€˜With you in a sec, Cap’n. Just finishing up here.’ He turned to Sadie. ‘Or have we just started?’
    She smiled.
    He beamed back, he genuinely glowed, and Sadie felt a thrill of awareness, a rush of adrenalin. And an overpowering urge to dance a little.
    â€˜So you’ll come?’ His pleasure was so youthful, so exuberant. But romantic interludes had definitely not been on the agenda this trip.
    Oh hell …
She frowned.
    â€˜Look,’ he said, ‘if you’re too busy, or you don’t want to, then just say. I’m a bit out of practice at all this asking out stuff. It’s just that you happen to be very attractive,’ to which Sadie looked down before she started blushing, ‘and fun. Plus I happen to be celebrating the end of an era, so I’d like very much for you to join me. If you’d like to. Unless you have other plans …’
    â€˜It’s not that.’
    â€˜Or maybe you’ve already got someone.’
    â€˜It’s not that either …’
    â€˜So?’
    â€˜Well, I would
like
to meet you this evening—’ she replied.
    â€˜I sense a “but”.’
    â€˜But, well …’ She bit her tongue. Her usual response was so nearly out of her mouth
– but I have to get back to my children
. But for once, she didn’t. Not for precisely twenty-two hours.
    She took a deep breath.
    â€˜
But
, it would mean interrupting my very tight itinerary and rescheduling my commitments. And as for asking my “staff” to entertain themselves at dinner tonight – they won’t like it, won’t like it at all.’ He hung on her every word. There were no staff, nor any elaborate plans for dinner, but she was enjoying playing along. And it had been ages since she’d been out on the town. ‘
But
 … it’s not impossible …’
    He brightened.
    â€˜â€¦ In fact, I suppose it