Dangerous Interloper. PENNY JORDAN

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      That shook her more than anything else—that ready acceptance of her senses to acknowledge her physical responsiveness to him.

      That was the trouble with being a daydreamer, with having a far too vivid imagination, she told herself bitterly. It led you into all sorts of dangerous assumptions.

      For example, if she hadn’t given in this afternoon to her own idiotic and wanton impulse to tamper with the actual reality of her earlier brief meeting with him, transforming it into some kind of impossible erotic encounter, she would not be suffering the humiliation and discomfort of trying to subdue her body’s physical response to him right now.

      Thank God that as yet no one had developed any means of correctly reading the human mind. The very last thing she could have endured would have been the ignominy of knowing that he had guessed what was happening to her.

      She tried to convince herself that in these days of equality it was no more shameful to her as a woman that she should be so physically affected by a man she hardly knew, and who had definitely not given her any encouragement to feel that desire, than had their positions been reversed, but it didn’t work.

      She was obviously a good deal more gender-orientated than she had supposed, she reflected wryly.

      ‘Your father was telling me that you live out at Gallows Reach.’

      The soft-voiced comment made her stiffen slightly before admitting, ‘Yes, I have a cottage out there.’

      ‘You don’t find it too remote?’

      ‘Not really. Perhaps if I weren’t mixing with so many people during the day I might find it too isolated, but as it is …’

      ‘Mmm. I know what you mean. I must say, I’m enjoying the solitude of the place I’m renting. I thought it would be a good idea to see how I took to living somewhere so remote before I actually took the plunge and bought a property.’

      ‘And how are you finding it?’ Miranda asked him curiously.

      ‘Interesting,’ he told her promptly. ‘Something of a voyage of self-discovery, in fact. It’s rather a long time since I’ve spent so much time on my own.’

      Miranda tensed again. Did that mean that, despite the fact that he wasn’t married, there was or had been someone important in his life? But his next words disproved this theory, as he added, ‘In London I had an apartment at the top of the building which housed our office. Not an ideal situation because it meant that I was virtually spending twenty-four hours a day with my work. In the beginning when we first set up in business that was necessary, but recently I’ve began to find that my whole life seems to revolve around the company.’

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