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What am I doing? I pulled back, but the grip in my hair locked me in place. My limbs stiffened.
    His hold on my hair loosened, and he leaned back, peering down at me through lowered lashes and warm, breathtaking eyes. His lips glistened softer and pinker. He rubbed his thumb lightly on my cheek.
    Why was I panicking again?
    “ This is Building Management. Is everything all right in there? Emergency stop seems to have been activated.” The voice echoed through the elevator from the speaker underneath the stop button.
    Haithem’s touch left my face, but the hold on my behind remained. A devilish smile played on his mouth. “My apologies. I seem to have accidentally knocked the button.”
    There was a pause. “Kindly depress the button, please, sir.”
    Haithem sighed, and he released my backside to reach for the button. The elevator sprang to life, dropping suddenly.
    Within moments the doors opened, and without another thought I slipped under his arm and out of the lift. I rushed through the empty lobby, my heart screaming a warning siren in my ears, to where a security guard waited at the doors. I glanced back. Haithem started after me but stopped when the security guard moved my way.
    “Is everything okay?” he asked, gaze darting from me to Haithem.
    “Fine, I’m just leaving,” I said.
    He opened the door and I rushed into the crisp outside air and ran to the corner, then froze
    Once again what was I doing? I needed him. Hadn’t even managed to get a last name from him. What was wrong with me? I peered around the corner at the lobby doors. Emma warned me about this. That there was a chance my reproductive system would eventually turn on me. Sex brain. Or as I fondly referred to it—horny-stupid.
    The door flew open.
    The massive length of him emerged. I sank my back to the wall. My heart hadn’t slowed down, not for a second. My lips were still bruised. Desire still rained a plague of tingles in my fun area. I could fix this entire issue. Take care of both sex-brain and exposé at once. I just had to step out of hiding and call his name...
    I looked around the corner. A black car pulled up at the curb. My throat thickened.
    Nope, couldn’t. Duplicitous sex wasn’t going to be the thing to haul my ass out of celibacy. Haithem strode to the car.
    I held my breath.
    He couldn’t just get in the car and disappear. I’d never get my story. I’d never see him again. Fate gave me a last chance with Haithem in that elevator. There wouldn’t be another. As I knew so well, fate could be cruel like that.
    Haithem opened the rear passenger door. The ruthless beat in my ears turned pounding. I looked up at the orange-pink sky between office towers. I needed to get home. Soon . He slipped into the car. I raced to a cab at the corner.
    Last chances were final.
    Haithem
    “Y OU MUST SEE THIS ,” Karim called from the office next to my cabin. I joined him by the windows, took the binoculars he offered and peered outside. He indicated to the building across from us.
    A flash of movement streaked beside the wall towards the corner.
    The muscles in my arms coiled like a snake. My heart went hard. Head clear. Throat dry.
    We’d been found.
    Dread formed a crust around me. A crust of memories made up of blood and fear and loss.
    Then I saw it—that same white blouse draping her lushness, the patch of sunlight turning a mass of hair from chestnut to red. The same hair I’d had my hands buried in not a half an hour ago.
    Her .
    Angelina was here. Why the hell was she here? My stomach clutched around a lump in my abdomen.
    “It seems your chance meetings today were no coincidence.”
    I adjusted the focus and the sight of her sharpened. The burn deepened. “Perhaps she’s desperate to see me again.”
    Angelina stepped out from the edge of the building and her head dropped back. White fabric rippled at her sides and her breasts. Her hand moved to shield her eyes to the glare of dusk.
    I didn’t see her eyes, yet I saw