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My eyes closed wearily as he ran his fingers through the loosened tresses of et riled up about that"Take your clothes off, angel

I’ll start the bath"

He backed up

I opened ht him by the shirt

I didn’t knohat to say; I just didn’t want hioing anywhere, Eva"

Gideon cuppedme the intensity and laser focus that had snared me from the first

"If you wanted hio

I want you too much

I want you withelse et"

I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for hiel," he breathed, lowering his head to press his cheek to o, either"

He swept me up in his arms and carried me into the bathroom with him

Chapter 11

I reclined with ainst Gideon’s chest, listening to the sound of lapping water as his hands glided lazily over me in the claw-foot tub

He’d washedht and the et me to face the truth - a truth he’d clearly known but needed me to see as well

How did he know me so well

better than I knewaroundfor him to ask about Brett

I knew Gideon well, too

"First, tell me if he’s okay"

There was a pause before he answered

"There’s no pere

Would you care if there was?" "Of course I’d care"

I heard his teeth grind

"I want to know about you two," he dehtly

"No"

"Eva "

"Don’t take that tone withan open book for you while you hoard all your secrets"

My head rolled to the side so that et of you is your body, I’ll take it

But I can’t give you more in return"

"You mean you won’t

Let’s be - " "I can’t"

I pulled away fro so that I faced hiht

On purpose

Without even realizing it, because the resentup, he spread his ar it sound like you don’t know me

that all we have is sex

when you know me better than anyone else"

"Let’s talk about what I don’t know

Why do you own so much of Vidal Records? Why do you hate your faed from your parents? What’s between you and Dr

Terrence Lucas? Where’d you go the other night when I had that nighth!" he snapped, shoving his hands through his wet hair

I settled back, watching and waiting as he clearly struggled with hi," I said softly

"Can I?" He pierced h to look past as it is? Howthe rim of the tub, I leaned my head back and closed my eyes

"Okay, then

We’ll just be fuck buddies who bitch to a therapist once a week

Good to know"

"I screwed her," he spat

"There

Do you feel better?" I shot up so fast, water surged over the edge of the tub

My stomach cramped

"You screwed Corinne?" "No, damn it"

His face was flushed

"Lucas’s wife"

"Oh "

I rele search

"She’s a redhead," I said lamely

"My attraction to Anne was based entirely on her relationship to Lucas"

I frowned, confused

"So things were off between you and Dr

Lucas before you slept with his wife? Or because of it?" Gideon set his elbow on the side of the tub and scrubbed at his face

"He alienated me from my family

I returned the favor"