her throat and moved back. “No can do. I’m sorry.”
Really sorry. She’d have done about anything to see him grin again. No wonder the models gushed about him as though he was a movie star. He had the kind of charm that tempted a woman to drop her guard, expose a chink in the walls around her heart, and go after him with wild abandon. She’d watched him from afar a thousand times, but up close—
Up close, he exerted a raw sexuality that said he would be very, very good in bed. Oh, boy.
“I’m sorry,” she said again, “but I’m not willing to compromise my ethics and just write some pretty little ego-stroking piece about you to counteract any bad press you may have received.”
He scowled. “This isn’t about me.”
“Then what is it about?”
“The company. I want a story written on LL Designs. Showcasing the company in a way your publication hasn’t done for years. I promise, it’ll be a great exclusive.”
For a second, she thought of another kind of exclusive—the kind where Caleb Lewis paid attention to her and no one else. The kind where she spent her evenings with him parked in front of a roaring fire, exploring every delicious inch of his tall, broad frame. And him doing the same to her, over and over again.
Get a grip, Sarah. The last thing you need is a relationship with a man like him.
And the last person a man like him would go for was someone like her. She wasn’t leggy or glamorous. She was … just Sarah. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing spectacular about it, either.
“I don’t know,” she said. “How do I know you’ll make this story worth my while?”
“I have something you need.” He paused. “The missing Frederick K stiletto.”
The shoe. He did have it.
All the years she’d worked at Behind the Scenes, Sarah had done her job—and done it well—and figured a promotion to the inside pages, to the real meat and potatoes of Smart Fashion,
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