CHAPTER 11

         Griffin sat opposite his sister at one of London’s most exclusive restaurants and tried not to brood over Gloriana’s earlier comment. Because Emeline was right, damn it! He was one of the good guys, and he didn’t know why he was letting the two-bit actress beside him, laughing over Kostas’s unfunny jokes, make him question that.

          Maybe because he’d kissed her the way a man kissed a woman he planned to sleep with and then blamed her for it. As if this maddening desire he felt for her was a deliberate spell she had cast over him…Which, come to think of it, was a much better explanation than the alternative… that he just couldn’t keep his hands off her.

          But that wasn’t the case at all. What had happened in his office earlier was the result of extreme stress boiling over. Nothi