Chapter 29

Theo was someone she didn’t even like, let alone love, and yet bizarrely she had never been aware of Sebastian as a man, not this way. She couldn’t even concentrate in the same room as Theo.

He felt the shiver run through her body as his finger grazed her cheek. Their glances locked.

“I’m not on trial here.” Camille had to force the words past the ache in her throat.

Theo felt the moment the heat generated by their mutual antipathy morphed into something else, different but still hot.

Camille was the first to look away. “It’s warm in here.”

Now this, he thought, breathing through the primal urge to crush her mouth under his, was not something that he had calculated for, but it should not be a problem. A little genuine chemistry might even help the cause as long as he did not lose focus…but focus had never been a problem for him.

Theo straightened and was about to move away—focus, on this occasion, might work better with some breathing space—when