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have permission to be on this mountain. You will tell them to leave.”
    â€œAlways imperious. One day you’ll learn that I doona take orders. You might also ken that men like me doona appreciate it when lasses like you try to play with them.”
    She’d been buttoning her blouse and slowed at his last comment. She knew she’d made a mistake, but still cried, “But they’re not welcome here!”
    â€œYou said I was no’ welcome as well,” he grated in an impatient tone. “Yet you were moments away from gladly taking me into more than your home.”
    She gasped. “I was not! A kiss is a far cry from lying with a man.”
    â€œNo’ just with ‘a man,’ ” he bit out. “With me.” He pushed forward once more, forcefully wedging himself between her closed knees. His body was hot against her even through her clothes.
    â€œThen I certainly was not going to!”
    His lips curved into a cruel smile. He put his hand against her backside again, trapping her closer, and growled the words, “I was about to enjoy you on this desk. Rip aside your skirts and take you here like the animal you called me.”
    â€œA-Against my will?” she responded unevenly, almost rendered speechless by his words. She tried to inch back on the desk. “Because that’s the only way it would happen.”
    He leaned in to say at her ear, “No’ against your will. You’d be begging for me inside you.” He lingered there, as if to make sure she heard him, then lightly touched his face down her neck.
    She gasped again, her shame deepening because even his words stirred her, made her want his lips against her breasts again, his breath hot against them.
    When he drew back from her, his expression was cold. “If you ever try to use your wiles on me again, expect that I’ll use you back a thousand times—”
    â€œCourt? Are you in there?” one of them called from outside. “Is anybody home?”
    He exhaled a long breath, then eased her legs closed to brush down her skirt with great familiarity, as if he knew her, as if they’d done this a hundred times. Strangely, that gesture was more confusing to her than anything he’d done before.
    â€œListen to me. We will no’ be long here. Just a couple of days.” He turned to walk away.
    â€œAnd I should take your word for it?” she whispered, but he heard her and strode back once more, his hand shooting out to palm the back of her neck and force her to look up to him.
    â€œKnow this, Annalía. You should never take my word. When you trust me, you will regret it.”
    â€œI don’t want them here,” she said in a low voice. “Any more than I want you.”
    His expression darkened ominously. “The only thing we respond to is force.” He raked his gaze over her. “And you doona have any.”

Six

    A s Court made his way through the house, he tried to get a grasp of what had just happened. Staring at her eyes, at her plump lips, he’d had a hard time concentrating, but he’d known that she didn’t want him—at least not at first. Her actions had been calculated. She’d had an agenda, and it had been a blow.
    He’d finally gotten to kiss her, and he’d been left . . . empty. That she’d seemed to catch on fire like a wick soothed his pride somewhat. Christ, he’d spoken the truth—he’d had a real chance of taking her on the table. And he wouldn’t have hesitated.
    But now the emptiness turned to ire. He’d truly wanted her while she only wanted something from him—to what end he was sure he’d find out soon enough.
    At the front entrance he paused, putting a hand against the wall beside the door, shaking off her effect on him. He curled his fingers against the plaster, willing his body under control, then finally opened the door wide to five of his