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It was Cary

"Baby girl," he drawled

"I want to sy is just too delicious

The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire

Rawr"

"Oh God

Hanging up now"

"See you tonight?" "Yes

Please don’t hter, secretly thrilled to hear hi so happy

Trey’s visit us dropped me off at the curb in front of the Crossfire, and I hurried out of the heat into the cool lobby

I ed to catch an open elevator just before the doors closed

There were a half dozen other people in the car withthemselves

I stood in the front corner and tried to put my personal life out of my mind

I couldn’t deal with it at work

"Hey, we passed our floor," the girl next to uy nearest the control panel stabbed repeatedly at all the numbers, but none of them lit up

except for the one for the top floor

"The buttons aren’t working"

My pulse quickened

"Use the eirls said

The car raced up and the butterflies in ot worse with every floor we passed

The elevator finally ca stop at the top and the doors opened

Gideon stood on the threshold, his face a gorgeous impassive mask

His eyes were brilliantly blue

and cold as ice

The sight of him took my breath away

No one in the car said a word

I didn’tthe doors would hurry up and close

Gideon reached in, grabbed led, too furious to want anything to do with hio

"Your behavior today has been appalling," he growled

"My behavior? What about yours?" I crossed over to the call buttons and hit the down button

It wouldn’t stay lit

"I’lanced at the security doors to Cross Industries and was relieved to see that the redheaded receptionist ay fro that I could still find hily

"Funny how that doesn’t lead toout with Corinne last night"

"You shouldn’t be snooping online aboutto find soet upset about"

"So your actions aren’t the proble the pressure of tears at the back ofout about them is?"His arms crossed

"You need to trustthat i out to dinner with Corinne?" "Because I knew you wouldn’t like it"

"But you did it anyway"

And that hurt

After all we’d talked about over the weekend

after he’d said that he understood how I felt

"And you went out with Brett Kline knowing I wouldn’t like it"

"What did I tell you? You’re setting the precedent for how I handle my exes"

"Tit for tat? What a remarkable show of maturity"

I stumbled back fro me

It felt as if thein front of er in Gideon’s body

"You’repassed briefly over Gideon’s face, but it was gone before I could identify it

I let his body language do the talking for him

He stood far froht

My heart bled and ht now

Let o"

Gideon moved to the other bank of elevators and pushed the call button

With his back to us will pick you up every

Wait for him

And I prefer that you eat lunch at your desk

It’s best if you’re not running around right now"

"Why not?" "I have a lot of things on my plate at the moment - " "Like dinner with Corinne?" " - and I can’t be worrying about you," he went on, ignoringtoo

"Gideon, on’t you talk to me?" I reached out and touched his shoulder, only to have hi else, his rejection ofon

If there’s a problem - " "The problem is that I don’t knohere the hell you are half the ti to scowl at me as the elevator doors opened

"Your roo to visit

Just

focus on that"

I stepped into the elevator with burning eyes

Aside fro me out of the elevator when it first arrived, Gideon hadn’t touched ertips down my cheek or made any atte to see ht over the rest of the day to tell

I’d never been so confused

I couldn’t figure out as happening, why there was suddenly this huge gulf between us, why Gideon was so tense and angry, why he didn’t seem to care that I’d had lunch with Brett

Why he didn’t see at all

The doors started to close

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