“She completely ignored me, blasted female! Spent the entire evening flirting with a scientist. An American scientist, if you ken such an appalling thing!” The Alpha sounded particularly Scottish in his dudgeon. Professor Lyall ceded to the fact that, for the moment, he was not likely to get any real work done. “Be fair, my lord. You undertook to ignore her first.” “Of course I ignored her! It is her responsibility to come to me at this juncture. I made my initial interest perfectly clear.” Silence. “I kissed her,” he explained, aggrieved. “Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing
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