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  Raul had her on the edge of panic—an unfamiliar one.

  He was potent—so potent that she wanted to say yes. To simply throw caution to the wind and have breakfast with this beautiful man.

  She didn’t even know his name.

  ‘Do you always ask complete strangers for breakfast?’ Lydia asked.

  ‘No,’ he admitted, and then he lowered his head just a fraction and lowered his voice an octave more. ‘But then you defy the hour.’

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  SHADOW MARRIAGE

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