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should get some sleep.”
    “I was about to do that. Help yourself to anything in the galley. The food has been all been pre-prepared.”
    “I will. Come to my cabin and sleep there. For as long as we’re on Ambrax, you won’t be out of my sight for a minute. You’ll have to get used to being within arm’s reach of me at all times.”
    Oh. That winged creature that lived beneath her ribcage stirred again at the thought of lying beside him. “I’d rather not tonight.”
    “It wasn’t a request.” He turned on his heel and strode away.
    A sudden burst of anger carried Lea to the corridor after him. “Until we reach Ambrax, I’m in charge, Mr. Cantor. You can’t just order me to—”
    He had her pressed against the bulkhead between one breathless syllable and the next, one hand splayed across her chest between her barely concealed breasts.
    “This isn’t a love affair, Lea, or a marriage.” His voice rasped, deep and sultry, and she shivered. “It’s a business arrangement. You hired me to get your pretty little ass safely on and off a forbidden world. To do my job, I need to know you can handle your part. When we’re there, you cannot defy me, even with a look. You cannot refuse me, or question me. Arrogance, willfulness on the part of a woman will be punished. That’s how the carnage that passes for a society on Ambrax works. You will hate it. You will hate me, and you will probably hate yourself when it’s all over, but I guarantee you, in fact I stake my life on it, that you will live through it. That’s more than I can say for most of the fools who thought they could handle the place.”
    His breath heated her face, and despite her inner rage, her nipples hardened and her pussy dampened at his touch. No other man alive would have dreamed of treating her this way. No man would have lived to tell the tale.
    He held her there, his hand above her heart, daring her with a dark look to defy him further. Finally, she softened, drew in a shuddering breath and released the last bit of fire that was keeping her soul alive. “I’ll do better. I promise.”
    The tension drained from his stance, and he trailed his fingers down her torso to the waistband of her newly tailored pants. Every nerve ending in her body screamed for more, and all over, her skin rose to goose flesh.
    “Naked. In my bed. Twenty minutes.”
    She nodded and watched him saunter away, despising herself for wishing she didn’t have to wait so long.
     
    * * * *
     
    After a quick meal and a final check of the flight plan, Damon made his way to his cabin.
    It had been his plan merely to sleep with Lea, to prepare her for the forced intimacy she’d have to endure on Ambrax, but the anticipation of having her lying naked next to him all night had him so hard he could barely walk.
    He found her curled on one side of the wide mattress, her shapely hips creating an enticing landscape under the thin thermal blankets. She hugged a pillow under her head and stretched her magnificent legs when he crossed the room.
    While he stripped, he recalled his first visit to Ambrax and the things he’d experienced there. Shame and arousal darkened his reflection in the small mirror that hung opposite the bed. How would he control his animal nature long enough to do the job he’d agreed to do, if he let himself remember those times?
    “I have questions.” She broke the guilty silence that shrouded the room, and he shook off his concerns and approached the bed.
    “About Ambrax or me?”
    “Both.”
    “I’ll answer what I can.” He kept his eyes off her face. Her soft, curious gaze would dissolve him if he lingered there. While she shifted her position to lie on her back, he pulled the blankets aside and climbed in beside her.
    Satin skin slid against him, and the now familiar scent of her body, her sex, drew him toward madness.
    “How long ago where you there?” she asked, hooking one leg over his thigh.
    He reached down and repositioned her, easing