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keeping Margot sweet would help the business, no?
    It felt oddly comfortable that his life suddenly revolved around one slender woman. A woman he wasn’t sure gave a shit for him. Nori laughed softly as he pulled up in front of Tommy’s building. Of course there was nowhere to park. He drove until he found a spot and walked four miserable blocks back. Next time, he thought, the summer sun beating a baseline on the top of his head, he would take a taxi.
    “You look hot,” said Tommy, her big brown eyes knowing as she passed him a cold glass of something pink.
    He downed it and grunted his approval.
    “Fresh watermelon-lime juice. Margot made it for us. You hungry?”
    Absolutely, but he doubted Margot was on the menu, and today his palette was appallingly limited. “No, but I could do with a refill. Where’s the loo, love? I need to powder my nose.”
    She grinned. “Margot asked me where you were from. England, she said? I said, no, he just went to English boarding school.”
    “You can tell her I was born in Paris, that I speak four languages, and that I would very much like to whisper sweet nothings in all four of them in both of her pretty little ears.”
    Tommy laughed and clapped him on the back. “I shall, dear Nori. The can’s down there to the left.”
    Margot was standing in the hall when he came out.
    My, my, he thought, heart rate increasing as a surge of adrenaline coursed through him. Had the fly come voluntarily to the spider?
    “Tommy said you wanted to tell me something?”
    Nori nodded, watching as she strolled closer. Good Lord she was sexy. They’d combed her hair out. It was huge, a soft black cloud floating around her perfect face. And she smelled fantastic, familiar, though he couldn’t place the scent. It almost smelled like, could it be baby powder?
    “What?”
    “Hmmm?”
    “What’d you wanna tell me?”
    “I’ll think of something,” he muttered, reaching out to run gentle fingers over her cheek. “You look like you’ve been gilded in moon dust.”
    She eyed him. “Do I?”
    He nodded, hands clenching and heart racing as he stepped close enough to see the tiny curls along her hairline. “These photos will be beautiful.”
    It took everything in him not to reach for her. But instinct told him to wait, and his extremely shaky patience paid off when she stroked a hand over his chest. He wanted to clap his hands together in glee. She was making this easy. She was so close now he could feel her steady breath wash his lips.
    He didn’t like forward women. He liked to do the chasing, but now he wanted to pray at her feet in thanks. “You look lovely, Margot.”
    “Yeah?” she whispered. “You think so, boss man?”
    Boss man? He grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her body into his. “I think we both know who’s running this thing, my girl. And it is definitely not me.”
    He kissed her.
    It was explosive. Wet, lush, and so very deep. He groaned, his tongue rolling almost lazily against hers. She felt wonderful in his arms. Those tits. God, they felt amazing against his chest, soft and full. He couldn’t wait to get his mouth and hands on them, to rub his face in them.
    He nuzzled the side of her neck with his nose as he sucked in air. He would have gone back in for round two, but –
    “Goti! Come on! Niomi’s finally ready.”
    Tommy appeared, and they pulled apart just in time. Of course she knew what she’d interrupted. She looked at them for a second, then rolled her eyes and walked away.
    Nori didn’t care. Tommy already knew he wanted her friend; she was helping to set them up. Why he didn’t know, but he would find out. Whether he did so before or after he got Margot naked remained to be seen.
    He pulled her back into his arms. “You make me hungry,” he whispered into her hair, nipped her ear in punishment.
    “Come on, will you?” Tommy yelled. “Wendy’s gotta repair that make up!”
    “I’ll be there in a sec,” Margot called, her eyes never