Chapter 4

Neither would he bother lifting a fainting female from that same floor in order to carry her to a comfortable sofa. And he certainly wouldn’t enter into conversation about the book she had been reading before she went to sleep… How embarrassing was it that this man—a man whose every movement was as smoothly lethal as the predator hero in her book—had discovered her weakness for sexy vampire stories? It wasn’t just embarrassing—it was mortifying!

“Are you a relative of Mrs Cooper?”

Although what a relative of the housekeeper would be doing in the main house was beyond Caroline.

The intruder obviously thought the same thing, as he gave her a mocking glance before replying, “Nope.”

“Are you going to tell me who you are, or—?”

“Or what?” He leant back against one of the work-units, arms folded across the broad width of that seriously muscled chest, those dark eyes narrowed on her ominously. “I think a more interesting question to answer might be who are you