BAD REPUTATION
Or that he was so damn attractive and charming.
“In my defence,” he said, a curious frown creasing his brow, “She brought it out in me.”
“That’s your excuse?” Isabella said incredulously, delivering a playful shove that barely moved him, his eyes remaining fixed on Olivia's every bit as curious and heated and very, very interested. “If I didn’t value your opinion so much, I’d tell you to just go and leave us to it.”
“Seems that makes two of you today,” he said, his penetrating gaze reaching inside Olivia's mind and triggering a replay of all that she had said with embarrassing clarity. “It’s a bloody good job my ego is big enough to take it.”