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that thigh warm. Manu, if you stretch up like that again you’ll end up being sidelined. Now settle down.’
    Silence hit the bus like an out of control railroad truck. She sat and swiped her hands together. ‘Well, that told them.’
    ‘Sure did. Next time I need a bodyguard I’ll know who to ask.’
    That raised a brief smile, but her eyebrows lifted in derision. ‘Don’t you get carried away with the excitement as well. And don’t forget I have a degree in doing odd things with sticky tape. And I’m not afraid to use it.’
    So she wanted to play. He could play. One eye on the journey, the other on her. No harm done and a very nice way to get to the stadium. ‘Sounds like fun. Any particular place on my body you’d prefer to start...?’
    ‘Your too-smart mouth? And then...’ Her eyes met his and heat zipped between them. The air around them palpably thickened and his gaze dropped to her lips. No lipstick today, but perfect pink lips pressed together in a sarcastic, possibly sadistic, smile. An unbidden need to run his tongue along those lips powered into his head.
    No.
    When he dragged his gaze back to her eyes he saw the hint of desire. God, he’d spent over a decade wooing women. He knew when a woman wanted him. And Dani’s want fired something in him. It had been a long time since his body had reacted so strongly to a woman.
    Then her father climbed aboard. And just like that her confidence seemed to leach out of her. She scanned Davide’s every move as he waved royally to the players, then took the seat the driver had reserved for him up front. Her eyes fixed on the thick rolls of moley skin on the back of his neck; her hands fiddled with her hair as he’d seen her do twice already when she was nervous. Zac’s hands clenched in an involuntary reaction’he knew how it felt to crave a father’s attention, to be brought to the brink with anxiety. To be found wanting.
    But whereas Zac had fought against it and thrown himself deep into proving himself in every which way he could, clearly Dani had internalised it all.
    Once they’d set off Zac felt a tap on his shoulder and as he turned Matt thrust a tabloid newspaper in his hands. ‘Here. Page twelve. Don’t let her see it.’
    ‘Oh, God.’ A knot fisted in his gut as Zac twisted further into the aisle and peered at the grainy photograph of Dani and himself, arm in arm on the red carpet. The moment where he’d told her to imagine the hacks naked, her face alight with laughter looking up at him with bright eyes. The angle of the picture emphasised a closeness that hadn’t been there.
    The headline read Lady Godiva and Sir Lancelot?

    Sir Love-A-Lot, more like. In a rare public outing celebrity recluse Dani Danatello and her rumoured-to-be new beau, Dr Zachary Price, walked the red carpet last night for a private charity ball organised by Danatello Investments. Clearly excited to be with him, Dani could barely keep her hands off her man, and who could blame her? Price has the allure and physique of one her father’s rugby players. And a pedigree to match. His parents, Marguerite and Rufus Price, are the esteemed and outspoken heads of the internationally award-winning Price Institute of Geology. Famed for his denigration of popular culture and a society based on celebrity, excess and falling academic standards Rufus espoused his opinions in his recent book, Going to Hell . So the News Women’s Page can’t help wondering what Rufus’s reaction would be to his son mixing with the very type of people this leading academic scorns .

    ‘What’s that?’ Dani’s voice got louder and the jasmine aroma intensified. The hairs on the back of Zac’s neck prickled as he sensed her closing in. A sudden need to protect her mixed with the fury swimming in his gut, she didn’t deserve such scrutiny and lies. And neither did he. If Davide got a whiff of this there’d be hell to pay.
    Snapping the paper shut he forced a smile. ‘Nothing. The usual