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throttle the urgency he felt to toss her over his shoulder, find the nearest bed, and lose himself in delirium of slating the undeniable lust she ignited in him.
    He smiled fractionally and captured her chin between his fingers. “Trust me. I couldn’t mistake you for a child. However, that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t act immature without knowing who they are dealing with.” Allura frowned. He brushed her lips with his thumb. “I meant that in the most positive way, no offense intended. You are a delight. I won’t lie and say I’m not interested, but my mother would be greatly displeased to know I offended a man in his own home.” He stepped back to break the trance between them. It didn’t help.
    The door to the house swung open and banged against the wall. Channing stepped out and glared at them like gloom and doom. “Do you two intend to come inside?”
    Noor moved back and motioned for her to precede him. He watched her nicely rounded butt as she walked toward the front porch, keenly aware it was going to take more restraint than he had to keep his hands off her.
    Currently, it seemed an impossible feat. Already, Allura made him feel like an adolescent about to have sex for the first time, all giddy and anxious, when he should focus on his normal method of operation when he wanted a woman. Casual tryst was his forte, nothing more or less, especially while he was on a mission. Allura would help to pass the time. The thought of spending countless days in her bed was highly attractive and definitely a plus, considering the harebrained assignment he had agreed to. Unfortunately, that meant disrespecting Channing, a notion offensive to him, which meant Allura was off limits.

Chapter Eight

    Allura completely ignored Channing’s mood as she walked beside Noor and entered the drawing room. How could she concentrate on his temper-tantrum and give him any consideration when the totality of her attention remained absorbed in Noor?
    She acted embarrassingly, as if she hadn’t been reared to be a lady, let alone seen a handsome man before. Goodness, she practically threw herself at Noor’s feet. Not as if she could help herself.
    My lord, look at him, Allura thought, snatching a quick glimpse.
    He was brute masculinity, tall and strikingly handsome with powerful, overtly male features. From the few minutes she experienced his persona, he exuded charm and indulgence on the outside, just like Channing. When internally it was innate, her brother could be rapacious in nature when it suited him, and lord knows what effect it had on women. She’d seen Channing in action, and the women simply couldn’t resist him. Even when it was clear they should keep a wide berth from his philandering ways, foolish women flocked to the possibility of engaging with mysterious danger. She supposed they experienced what she did. An odd sensation of exhilaration surfaced and left her tingling at the possibility Noor might be more than a handful. Perhaps the ennui of her life on the ranch and small town environment made her susceptible to a new challenge. Maybe her wits suddenly faded, because Noor was potency personified.
    With the way he looked at her, propriety required she have the decency to pretend his thorough but rude assessment perturbed her. Instead, she experienced a wave of infused heat with the examination reflected in his silvery bright eyes with hints of gunmetal flickering in the irises. His look was purely arousing. And for the life of her, she couldn’t stop staring at him as audaciously as he captured her attention, as effectively as a hypnotist did.
    Where she lived, who she was, made her keenly aware at a young age dangers existed from beast and man alike. The knowledge should have been innate and disallowed her imagination to swirl dangerously as an undertow, a current of rampant sexual emotions. Calm down, she warned herself. There was no sense in working herself into a tizzy over a man, for god’s sake. A terribly