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her protest sounded feeble.
    His mouth moved over hers. His tongue
tentatively urged her lips apart, sending liquid heat surging
through her body and making her forget who she was and what she was
doing here. Damn he was good.
    Dani moaned, bringing them both back to their
senses. When she dared to open her eyes, he tilted his head and
smiled. Only then did Danielle realize he'd let go of her hands,
and she had her fingers entangled in his hair. She was mortified at
her wanton behavior.
    “ You don't seem to be
thinking of your precious Steven now,” he taunted her.
    Steven was the farthest thing from her mind,
but she’d never admit the truth. Placing both hands on his chest,
she shoved him away and slid from the bed. “I won't be bothering
you much longer. I'll get dressed and leave.”
    Adrian watched the hellcat walk haughtily
toward the bathroom--in the wrong direction. “It's the other way,”
he told her, then chuckled when she pretended he hadn't spoken. At
least she did change directions.
    What a perfect beauty she was ... and what a
stroke of luck ... no bad luck, Adrian decided. She was the only
woman who had stirred his interest in a long, long time, and she
already had a boyfriend, the unfortunate Steven.
    Of course, he could tell her that she'd
passed out and nothing happened, but that would spoil the fun. He
grinned. Perhaps a little suffering would improve her
disposition.
    Adrian shoved out of bed, not caring that he
was naked, and went to the closet to retrieve his favorite pair of
ragged, blue jeans. As he donned a chambray shirt, he figured it
was just as well she was leaving. He didn't have time for another
woman complicating his life. His last girlfriend had complained
that she talked to his secretary more than she talked to him. Women
were trouble as far as he was concerned, and most only saw dollar
signs dancing before their eyes.
    Adrian made a decision -– he’d do the right
thing. He could at least take Ms. Kapur to the correct address and
deposit her in her precious Steven's hands.
    With that decision made, he needed some
strong coffee. He had drunk a little too much last night, himself,
and he needed the reviving caffeine. Adrian wondered how she would
explain her absence to her boyfriend as he scooped the coffee out
of the decanter and dropped it into a filter. After pouring water
into the coffee maker, he rubbed the back of his neck. The son of a
bitch had better not give Ms. Kapur any trouble. After all,
sleeping together had clearly been a mistake on both their
parts.
     
     
    Danielle tried to scrub the stranger's touch
from her body, but it was no use. He seemed to have branded her
with his strokes and his scent. All she had to do was shut her eyes
and she could feel how his lips had caressed hers with the hottest
kisses she'd ever experienced. Steven had never turned her into a
quivering mass of jelly, mindless to everything around her.
    But the man was a perfect stranger.
    And perfect was the optimum word.
Someone she knew nothing about. Hell, she didn't even know his
name! That produced a rueful laugh. When she should have been
running away, Dani found she wanted to find out his name. Somehow,
her logical side seemed to have clicked off ever since she'd
stepped into this house.
    God, did her head hurt! She didn't need to be
thinking--she needed to get moving.
    “ Damn, Dani. How could a
nice girl like you get in this kind of situation?” She knew she was
on the verge of hysteria, and she had to calm down. “Okay, Dani,
you're a big girl. You can handle this. Take a couple of deep
breaths. You can handle this!” She reached over and turned off the
water.
    Steven would make her forget. He would erase
the interloper's touch. But did she want him too? She shook her
head. Of course, she did.
    After Dani dried off, she looked into her bag
and pulled out a pair of navy blue shorts and her favorite chambray
shirt which had belonged to her brother. She liked big, baggy,
comfortable