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WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING LIKE THAT
She'd won? Really? Alanis followed Brody out into the vast hall and up the long, winding staircase to the first-floor bedrooms with a feeling of disbelief tempering the awe that the beautiful house inspired in her. She had the distinct feeling that very few people had ever won a battle of wills with Brody McLean, and she didn't trust him.
“Your room.”
Brody stopped outside a pale oak door halfway down the landing and glanced down at her, his eyes hooded now and cold.
“I'll come back for you in ten minutes when you've got your stuff together.”
“There's no need,” Alanis said quickly. “You go down to the pool as you'd planned. I can find my way about and…”
“Ten minutes, Alanis!”
He opened the door and stood aside for her to enter. After
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