"Can’t you handle that kind of commitment?" Kali, trying to control the slowly subsiding fit of chuckles, shook her head and leaned back onto the pil ows again. She peered at him through the lenses of her glasses and thought about men who had accidental y been born into the wrong century. Just her luck, she told herself rueful y, to have gotten herself involved with one! Imagine a man trying to force a woman to marry him in this day and age! Imagine a man wanting a woman that badly No, she didn’t want to pursue that line of thought, she realized immediately. Besides, Lang couldn’t be serious! Even he couldn’t be that old-fashioned and… and impossibly romantic! Everyone was out for something. Lang wanted a good deal for his patents and his brains. He had tried to create a bidding war between IAI and Hadley and then had abandoned the notion after the encounter with Davis. Now he must be trying another tactic. Did he think that by seducing her he was going to ensure the best possible deal with Interactive Automation, Inc.?
