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her brother were over.
    “If I don’t agree to this?”
    “Then the both of you will be prosecuted and sent to jail.”
    “I guess I always knew you would find me out and my whole life would change.”
    Dominic looked around her apartment. It was small and cozy and from the arrangement of the furniture and the prints on the wall he could tell she’d done her best to make this place her home. “You are right. Your life is about to change. You can let it happen around you or you can take control.”
    “How do you figure?”
    “Well, now you can stop lying. And stop keeping all your fears bottled inside you.”
    “What’s in this for you?” she asked. “I know I’m not an unattractive woman, but I’m hardly the type of woman who inspires these kinds of gestures in men.”
    Dominic thought about her question. “I can’t speak to their actions, but you are the woman I want. It’s turned into an obsession, Angelina. And I know that I don’t want to let you have that kind of control over me.”
    She frowned at him. “That sounded like a compliment at first, but then not so much. Are you saying I’m some kind of devil you are trying to exorcise?”
    He laughed and for the first time since he’d heard her name from Ian he felt an end to the relentless emotion of anger that had been blanketing him. “My attraction to you is powerful, but I don’t want to exorcise you from my life.”
    “You don’t?”
    “No, Angelina. I don’t. I want to take you to my bed and let the attraction between us run its course. I wanted you before I found out you were selling my secrets,” he said. “That hasn’t changed. Making you my mistress will give us both a chance to enjoy the physical attraction between us.”
    “What if what we have turns out to be nothing but a spark and it dies out quickly?”
    “Do you honestly think it will?” he asked, pulling her into his arms and kissing her.

    Having Dominic’s arms around her was both everything she’d ever wanted and everything she’d feared. She didn’t have the experience to handle a man like Dominic yet at the same time this felt right.
    The intensity in his eyes awakened something deep inside her that she’d always been afraid of. She knew she was weak-willed, witness the current idiocy with her brother, but there was something ephemeral about Dominic. He touched parts of her that she’d always ignored. Parts that she didn’t want to have to acknowledge.
    She was over her head, but then that was nothing new and for once she wanted to just let go of her fears and worries. And in Dominic’s arms she could do so.
    His lips rubbed over hers, making her stop thinking and just experience him. His tongue teased her lips but didn’t enter her mouth and his hands moved over her neck and shoulders, up to her face.
    She liked the feel of his hands against her face. He made her feel cherished and beautiful. Two things she could safely say she’d never experienced before. But that didn’t mean she knew how to handle it or him. Or that she even wanted to.
    “I think that answers the question of attraction,” he said, ending their kiss.
    She blinked up at him, realizing how silly it had been to think that the attraction between them wasn’t real.
    “You’re staring at my mouth.”
    “It’s so perfectly formed,” she said. “It looks hard but your lips were soft against mine.”
    “Were they?”
    He quirked one eyebrow at her, stroking his finger down the side of her neck. She shivered as he rubbed the pad of his finger over her pulse. She felt it increase and fought to keep her expression serene. To somehow keep him from guessing that he had any affect on her. But she knew that he was used to being around much more sophisticated women.
    “Yes,” she said. “You’re a very attractive man.”
    “Thanks,” he said.
    Startled, she had to laugh. “You are too much.”
    There was an innate charm that imbued everything he did. She wondered if it stemmed from his