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    Only then did Raven dare exhale. She could practically feel the scorch marks where J.R.’s tongue had flicked fire at her character, or lack thereof. Her face flushed with shame. She didn’t want to be the object of derision. No one did. Nor did she want to be a chisel prying a father and son apart. Snow or not, she’d have to pack and leave.
    That decided, Raven rose and tiptoed across the loft toward the second floor doorway, which she’d discovered the day before. She eased the door open, glancing in each direction before setting a cautious foot into the hallway. She skulked along the corridor. Just as she passed the stairs to the main floor entrance hall, the doorbell rang, its distinctive sound echoing around the huge center foyer below her. Raven stopped, turning to glance over her shoulder, looking down at the people below. Lorianne and Margaret had just wandered in from the sitting room when the bell peeled, while Jackson was crossing the hall toward the back of the house, his father in hot pursuit. The only person missing was Nana, who had retired to her room for a brief rest after lunch.
    Lorianne pulled open the door, stepping back out of the way as a gust of wind and snow blew in along with a six-foot-two inch male. He was clapping his hands to rid his gloves of snowflakes, then he stopped and shook his broad shoulders and dark head like a dog coming in from the rain.
    “Oh,” Lorianne gasped, struggling with the door as the wind continued to gust. The man merely stretched a long arm and closed the door in a competent manner. “Oh, thank you. The wind’s very strong.”
    Nicholas Demetrious looked down, giving Lorianne a charming smile, his teeth very white against his dark tanned skin, his eyes warm and amused. “My pleasure,” he said, his voice smooth chocolate liqueur mingling with the rich cream of a slight southern drawl.
    Devastating.
    Stunned by his sudden appearance, Raven shivered as she watched Nicholas work his sexy magic on Lorianne. There was power there. Power accompanied by a sense of humor that always made Raven wonder what he found so amusing. He set her teeth on edge and had since he’d first turned his quizzical glance on her as a child. She and Nicholas were like oil and water after the match was dropped. He was a magnificent and very sexy animal. She could appreciate him, even as she was wary enough to keep her distance. For all of Nicholas’s smooth sophistication and charm, he reminded her of a panther dressed in a too-tight tuxedo. If he ever really unbuttoned—
    Raven shivered again.
    “Good timing. Got here just ahead of another big storm, I see,” J.R. said.
    “Barely. I got caught in one on the way here yesterday. I had to stay in some little motel last night.” Nicholas unbuttoned his overcoat and removed his gloves to hand both to a hovering Lorianne. “The roads are really getting treacherous.”
    Raven shook her head and recovered her wits. What the bloody hell is Nicholas doing here?
    Coincidence? Could be. But knowing how Nicholas worked, she doubted it. No matter, if fate in the shape of Nicholas was stepping in, then she’d use it.
    Raven moved closer to the railing in the upper hall, feeling as if she were seated in a front-row theatre box. The moment and the players were etched onto her memory. The hallway thrown into sharp shadows from the storm outside, the titter of polite conversation, and Nicholas—all charm and appealing danger—standing calmly in the center of it.
    Her nerves continued to tingle as Nicholas greeted Jackson, who suddenly resembled a teenage pup standing in the shadow of a mastiff. Nicholas was only three or four years older than Jackson, but in terms of experience and sheer presence, he overwhelmed the man shaking his hand. That’s when she got the idea. Her lips curved in a smile that her mother, had she been around, would have told everyone in the vicinity to beware.
    She must have made some sound because suddenly
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