“Where are you going?” Cedric asked as he watched her, although he made no attempt to go after her.
She couldn’t lose her temper again. She wouldn’t, Anna thought as she turned around to look at him again. “I need to leave. Go home,” she replied.
The Duke was standing in the middle of the room, his hands in his pockets, his head tilted to one side. It was a relaxed, casual pose, and yet the way he looked at her was anything but casual. The deep midnight of his eyes burned and he radiated a subtle, sensual energy that made the air around him crackle.
He looked like a man who’d never heard the word ‘no’ in all his life. Unluckily for him, ‘no’ was the only word she had.
“There's no reason why I should stay,” Anna clasped her shaking hands together in an effort to still them. “I’m not m
