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Nikolas turned around in his saddle, his face animated. Then they came to the beach, just wet sand now at the low tide.

They rode carefully, the horses’ hooves picking between the rocks. The track was slippery, with a deep, primal smell of mud, salt, and seaweed. It was low tide and the mud flats were exposed. They negotiated the grounds down to where the gardens met tidal river estuary. Ben felt menace, something truly fierce in the Norseman when they rode together. He was at one with the animal in a way an English aristocrat could never be. On a horse, he became something else, something dangerous. In most everything else he did, Nikolas retained his enigmatic, impeccable elegance, the facade no one was allowed to penetrate-but not in this. They led Nikolas’s horses out of the magnificently appointed stables. Ben knew exactly what his boss wanted and nodded. Sir Nikolas would never be so inelegant as to mention their more unusual extracurricular activities. “All in good time.” After a few moments, watching his wife direct one of the gardeners cutting holly, Nikolas asked, deceptively casually, “So, Benjamin, will you indulge me?”īen did laugh at that. He half turned away from the table, moved his plate further out of reach, and asked stonily, “What’s the job you’ve got for me, sir?” Like was a safe word, and he was sticking with that. He had no idea what the relationship with his boss really was, but he sure as hell wasn’t going to let the man know he actually liked him. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he’s in love with a very dangerous stranger. How do you get that ghost to love you back?Įx-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. How do you love a man who describes himself as dead?

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