Making Googly Eyes

Kira sensed the change in the atmosphere and decided that she’d better quit while she was ahead. ‘Well, I should let you get back to work.’ She made for the door. Austyn grabbed her wrist and hauled her back. ‘Do you think you can just run away after what you did?’ ‘What did I do?’ Kira feigned ignorance. ‘You tried to seduce me.’ ‘I did no such thing!’ ‘Your low-cut dress says otherwise.’ ‘It’s just something I threw on.’ Kira defended herself. ‘I wasn’t trying to seduce you.’ She felt the heat of his gaze and swallowed nervously. Was he going to kiss her again? When he did it back in the office, he managed to stop himself in time because it was a public place—well, semi-public. Kai and the secretaries were just on the other side of the wall. But now they were in the privacy of their own home. Elsie was asleep. If Austyn started kissing her, would he be able to stop? He had been abstaining for a long time now. He was in his thirties, an age for a man’s sexual prime. Was it really heal