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out?’ he asked.
    ‘Very funny.’ Those full and sensuous lips thinned at his teasing. ‘Gramps received a telephone call late last night and the security guards arrived almost immediately afterwards. I believe he did attempt to call you and give you the option to postpone your visit until a later date, but he couldn’t reach you on any of the telephone numbers you’d given him …’ She arched red-gold brows.
    ‘As I said earlier, I only arrived in England a few hours ago. I was probably in transit,’ Jaxon dismissed distractedly. ‘Any idea what the problem is?’
    ‘Gramps never discusses matters of security with me.’ She shook her head. ‘Unfortunately you won’t be able to discuss it with him either,’ she added unapologetically, ‘because he left for London very early this morning.’
    Meaning that, apart from the household staff, the two of them were currently alone here together.
    Probably not a good idea, when Jaxon was totally aware of Stazy’s femininity today in the fitted blouseand tight denims. And that glorious unconfined red-gold hair was a temptation he was barely able to resist reaching out and touching.
    What would it feel like, he wondered, to entangle his fingers in that silky hair? Or, even more appealing, to have the length of that gorgeous hair tumbling sensuously about his thighs as a naked Stazy knelt between his parted legs, her fingers curled about his throbbing shaft as she bent forward to taste him …?
    ‘He did say he would try to telephone you later today to explain,’ she added dismissively.
    ‘Fine,’ Jaxon accepted tersely, aware that his erotic imaginings had produced a bulge of arousal beneath the fitted leathers. Something Stazy was going to become aware of too if he didn’t get out of here soon!
    ‘I’m sure he’ll understand if, under the circumstances, you decide you would rather leave the research for now and come back another time …’
    Was that hope he heard in Stazy’s voice? Probably, Jaxon acknowledged ruefully. Despite her casual appearance, she didn’t seem any more pleased to see him this time around than she had six weeks ago. ‘Sorry to disappoint you, Stazy, but I don’t have any other time free.’
    ‘I assure you it makes absolutely no difference to me whether you stay or go,’ she dismissed scathingly.
    Nope, Stazy wasn’t pleased to have him here at all. ‘In that case, I’m staying,’ he drawled.
    Stazy nodded tersely. ‘Gramps left all the necessary papers in the library for us to look through, if you would like to get started?’
    Jaxon shook his head. ‘I’ve been travelling for almost twenty-four hours. What I would really like to do is shower and change out of these leathers.’ All ofthat should give enough time for his wayward arousal to ease!
    Unfortunately Jaxon’s request instantly gave Stazy an image of Jaxon stripped out of those decadent leathers, standing naked beneath a hot shower, the darkness of his hair wet and tousled as rivulets of soapy water ran down his hard and tanned torso—
    ‘Would you like some tea before you go upstairs?’ she bit out abruptly, inwardly cursing the way her breasts felt fuller just at her thinking about a naked Jaxon in the shower.
    This was ridiculous, damn it! She had never been a sensual being—had certainly never—
ever!
—reacted like this in her life before, let alone found her imagination wandering off into flights of fantasy about a man whose reputation with women was legendary!
    ‘Just the shower and a change of clothes, thanks.’
    She nodded. ‘I’ll have Little take you up to the suite of rooms my grandfather has had prepared for your arrival.’
    ‘Why put the butler to all that trouble when you’re already here …?’ Jaxon asked huskily.
    Stazy stilled, her finger poised over the button that would summon the butler back to the drawing room, before slowly turning to look at Jaxon. The mockery in those assessing grey eyes and the challenging expression on his