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need a woman in my bed more than I need a physiotherapist.’ Jordan knew he had never needed physical release more than he did at that moment!
    ‘Don’t you have a girlfriend you could call?’ Stephanie asked curiously.
    His face hardened. ‘Not any more, no.’
    Stephanie looked at him searchingly. Because his parents had divorced when he was a child, Jordan Simpson had never made any secret of his own aversion to the married state. But that hadn’t prevented him from having a constant stream of women in his life. Beautiful women. Sophisticated women. Womenas unlike Stephanie as it was possible for them to be. Which was the reason she knew that his interest in her wasn’t genuine.
    ‘Why not? There must be plenty you could call who would come running.’
    He gave a humourless smile. ‘Look at me, Stephanie,’ he demanded.
‘Really
look at me,’ he pressed.
    Stephanie had already looked. Several times! And, yes, he was obviously thinner, gaunter, grimmer than he had been six months ago, but as far as she was concerned none of that detracted from the fact that he was a compellingly handsome man.
    ‘What am I looking for?’
    Jordan gave an impatient snort. ‘What was it you called me earlier? A cripple, wasn’t it?’
    She gasped at the bitterness in his tone. ‘No, what I actually said was that
you
obviously believe yourself to be a cripple,’ she corrected firmly.
    ‘Maybe because that’s what I am?’ he said harshly. ‘I certainly don’t want any woman to be with me just because she feels sorry for me.’
    ‘That’s ridiculous—’
    ‘This from the woman who just refused me?’ he taunted.
    Stephanie rolled her eyes. ‘We both know you weren’t being serious.’
    ‘Do we?’
    ‘Yes,’ she snapped. ‘You were just trying to make me leave.’
    ‘Is it working?’
    ‘No,’ she told him firmly, determined to ignore the traitorous responses of her own body to this conversation; her breasts felt full and aching, and there was a burning warmth between her thighs.
    Knowing that this man was deliberately playing with her in an effort to make her leave made absolutely no difference to the way Stephanie’s body responded to him. ‘How do you think Lucan will react if I have to call him and tell him I had to leave because you were sexually harassing me?’ She looked at him challengingly.
    Jordan gave a feral grin. ‘He would probably be relieved to know that something has aroused my interest at last.’
    Remembering how deeply concerned Lucan St Claire had been about Jordan the previous week, Stephanie thought that might be the case, too!
    ‘Aroused
being the operative word,’ Jordan jeered, and had the pleasure of seeing the blush that re-entered those creamy cheeks.
    Stephanie McKinley was really quite beautiful, he realised with a frown, her face impishly lovely, her body feminine and shapely. And his fingers actually itched to release that red-cinnamon-gold hair from its confining braid. He could imagine all that hair splayed out across her luscious nakedness as he feasted hungrily on the fullness of her breasts, before going lower.
    He wasn’t going to get any sleep tonight, either, if he continued to allow his imagination free rein. In fact a cold shower sounded as if it might be a good idea! ‘I’ll wish you goodnight, Stephanie.’ He gave her another lazy grin before he turned and left the kitchen.
    Heading straight for that cold shower.

CHAPTER THREE
    ‘W HERE have you been?’ Jordan demanded the following morning, as Stephanie unlocked the kitchen door and let herself back into the house accompanied by a gust of chilling wind, the plastic shopping bags she carried in her hands necessitating she gently nudge the door closed behind her with her foot.
    The cold shower Jordan had taken the night before had briefly succeeded in dampening some of his arousal. Unfortunately that arousal had returned with a vengeance the moment he had heard Stephanie making her way up the stairs to use