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resist, Arya ran a hand over her smooth cheek.
    Startled, Maya took a step
back.
    “ May I?” Not giving her a
chance to speak, he leaned forward to take a taste of her warm
luscious lips.
    At first, he kept it light, just a soft
brush of his lips against hers. Slowly he deepened the kiss,
leaving no room for her to back out. The taste of her mouth was
addictive. He wanted more. Without realizing, he put his arms
around her waist and pulled her close. Softly, he explored the soft
recesses of her mouth, mingling his tongue with hers in a
stimulating dance.
    Arya raised his head, his mind blurred.
What had just happened? Wanting a mere taste, he had become
engulfed in a sea of sensation never experienced before.
    Maya stepped out of his arms. “We’re
not doing that again.”
    Giving himself a moment to collect his
wits, Arya walked over to his rented car and took out his luggage.
He dumped it on the back seat of her car.
    What was he doing? He never mixed
business with pleasure. It was a rule that kept him sane in this
world of insanity. What was so different about her? Why couldn’t he
resist her?
    “ Did you hear me?” she said
with a sharp bite to her words.
    “ You didn’t exactly resist
me, did you?” he said and snapped the car door shut.
    “ What? Now wait
here…”
    Arya raised his hands in a gesture of
defeat. “You know what? I’m sorry. It was my fault and it won’t
happen again.”
    She muttered something under her breath
and stalked off to the driver’s side of the car.
    “ Where are we going?” Arya
said in a businesslike manner. It was important to put some
emotional distance between him and the very attractive Ms. Lois. He
sat on the passenger seat and buckled up.
    “ Amoria.”
    “ Where’s that?”
    “ It’s where my grandfather
lives,” she said. “It’s a small village near the base of Mount
Kenya.”
    “ What does he do there?”
Arya decided to keep things strictly professional between
them.
    “ He runs a small snake farm.
They do research on snake venom, especially its medicinal
properties. He believes snake venom can be used to cure deadly
diseases.”
    She navigated through the busy Nairobi
streets where everyone was rushing off to work or
school.
    “ Did you take time off from
the zoo’s snake house?”
    “ The park’s closed for a few
days for renovation.” Maya turned a corner and stopped at a signal.
“I was planning to visit Isaac anyway. Since it got a bit tiring to
be stalked, I thought it best if you got over this itch you’ve to
see him.”
    “ I would apologize, but I
don’t think you’ll buy it,” Arya said. A smile crinkled at the
corner of his lips.
    “ No, I won’t.”
    “ Well, then, no point in
making an effort to do so.”
    She glared at him. “You think you’re
smart, don’t you?”
    “ I am smart.” He smiled back
at her, pleased to see a flush of annoyance on her
cheeks.
    She really was a gorgeous woman.
Intelligent. Intriguing. However, she was also totally off-limits,
he reminded himself. That kiss was an aberration, an act of
madness. He was here for work and she was a means to an end. There
was no way he could afford a dalliance at this point. Archan had
him on a short leash and he simply couldn’t afford to waste any
time with personal pleasures.
    What a waste! He closed his eyes. It
would take immense willpower to stand firm against this
particularly tasty temptation, especially now that he had tasted
her already.
    “ I’ll take a nap, if you
don’t mind,” he drawled.
    “ Be my guest,” she
said.
    Silently, they made their way to the
small village of Amoria. As their destination edged closer, the
road became narrow and rutted, clearly showing a demarcation
between the big urban cities and the largely ignored smaller
communities.
    “ Here we are.” Maya
maneuvered the car onto a dirt road and negotiated a narrow bend.
She stopped in front of a small cottage covered with ivy on all
sides. “Home, sweet home!”
    Arya