He raised his gaze to meet hers, the winter water in his eyes growing dark. “How about my appearance?”“You look like a person who’s already won and only needs to wait for the other players to recognize this.” And she moved even closer, so close that the warmth of his body burned through the flimsy material of the shirt she was still wearing. “It should scare me. It does not scare me. It makes me want to be closer.”Derrick’s hand slipped down from her back to her waist and brought her closer to himself. “Then be closer. Tonight you will stay at my side without leaving it even for a second. Hartley will search for weakness. Marcus will search for distance. Neither will find anything.”By late afternoon the tension in the penthouse had become something almost tangible, an entity that lurked and thrived with each and every whispered conversation.Rica was standing in front of the full-length mirror in the
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