Chapter 9

Money would be the lever he’d pull in order to get her to do what he wanted, since money he had in abundance. Sex too was a lever, as he knew after that encounter down by the lake that they had some kind of sexual chemistry. Not that it would be any hardship; there was nothing he liked more than making a woman burn for him.

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Anna had gone very still, like a deer catching a predator’s scent.

Cedric thought she’d have researched him before she’d arrived the way he had with her, and would already know that he was the man she’d met by the lake. But it was clear from her stiff posture and sudden tension that she hadn’t known. Not until he’d spoken. He stared at her elegant back, conscious of desire stirring to life almost instantly inside him.

Ah yes, he remembered that feeling, not to mention his own uneasiness with the ferocity of it. But he could manage that. It was only physical desire, and he knew, if anyone did, that desire only meant what you wan