How to Tempt the Off-Limits Billionaire by Joss Wood

Author:Joss Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-06-24T13:53:18+00:00

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Seeing the light under Muzi’s half-open bedroom door, Ro gently knocked. When she heard Muzi’s command to enter, she pushed open the door.

“Hey,” he said, his deep voice washing over her. He ran his hand over his jaw and glanced at the dark night beyond his floor-to-ceiling windows. “I can’t believe I slept for so long. What the hell did Sam give me?”

Ro stepped into the room and rested her hand on the back of a black-and-white wingback chair. His bedroom was a study in black and white: the wall behind his head was painted charcoal, his headboard was black and snow-white linen covered his bed. Huge black-and-white photographs depicting wild, desolate beaches decorated the white wall that separated the bedroom from his dressing room, which she presumed led to an en suite bathroom. Opposite him was a huge flat-screen TV attached to the wall. He muted the sound and tossed the remote onto the bed beside him.

“How are you feeling?” Ro asked, noticing that he’d dispensed of the sling Dr. Sam insisted he wear when he left her house.

“Not too bad,” he replied, crossing his long legs at the ankle. On returning home, he’d refused her help. He’d managed a shower and to pull on a pair of running shorts, but his chest was still bare. That was okay, she had no problem looking at his big body, muscles on muscles.

“Since it’s Sunday, and Greta took the rest of the day off, I made a chicken salad for supper,” she told him, rocking from foot to foot and trying to pull her mind off his fantastic body.

“Sounds good, but I’m not hungry,” Muzi said. He patted the bed beside him. “Come here.”

Ro moved to the bed and sat down on the edge, sending him a concerned look. A bandage covered the stitches in his leg and a butterfly clip held the cut on his forehead together. He had a scrape on his chin and his shoulder but, despite the hint of pain in his eyes, he looked a million times better than he did before.

“You scared me,” Ro said, internally wincing at the fear in her voice.

“I’m tough. My body has taken a lot worse,” he reassured, placing his hand on her bare knee. It felt good there, like it belonged. Damn, she could not be developing strong feelings for this reserved man.

She would not let herself fall for another person who would, eventually, end up hurting her. Love was a fallacy, and commitment was a concept that was, as she knew, flawed.

Muzi squeezed her knee and she lifted her head to look into his soulful black eyes. “Thanks for your help today.”

Ro nodded and half turned, putting her knee and thigh on the bed to face him. “I’m sorry I abused your fancy car.”

“It’ll be fine,” Muzi assured her, drawing circles on the bare skin beneath the hem of her shorts.

“Do you need me to call anyone, to tell them about your accident?” she asked, trying to ignore his sparking-a-fire touch.

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