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with a muted click, shutting out the rest
granite, brushed steel, and floor-to-cei
aintly of fresh p
noramic window was
-three, he possessed the lean,
ps, Bertrand Willi
ed with an intensity that com
ightly turning over the tit
onto mine, a low, rumbling
d, his gaze never leaving my face.
ntil I stood at the edge of his expansive desk. "I'm here
aised a da
red two glasses of ice water, and p
could bring the Rutledge hei
His gaze dropped to the dog tag at my throat, then lower, to the
ding, keeping m
fraudulent marriage for three years," I said directly. "He is currently a
tightened slightl
gh his gray eyes, though his ex
ouch your family's assets," he murmured. "That
"Legally, I am completely unmarried. But I need an absolu
e you proposing?" he
and deliberate. "A legally binding, publi
ell into abs
eral seconds before a low, dr
teps toward me. "In the entire National Hockey League, no woman
physical presence of him-the heat of his body an
pulse to stay steady. "Your family's conservative board members have been press
d, his voice dr
l the heat rolling off him. "You've thought this through," he murmu
ats," I continued. "Marrying me permanently silences your family's board while
in front of me, his massive fram
is warm breath brushing ag
a marriage contract to han
into his dark eyes. "But it saves you time, allowing you to
to my lips, lingering there with an intens
into my world, Kendall?" he as
ecisions I regr
g. "If we do this," he said, "you don't run at the first headline. Yo
d. "I'm only dangero
ous smile touc
then reached out and tapped t
legal team and the expedited Commonwealth marriage doc
through the speaker immedi
, the tension in my shou
e titanium dog tag across the granite
ht on, it isn't a debt token anymore.
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