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He wasn’t quite so handsome anymore

"If you continue to throw your life away, there’s nothing I can do about it"

"I’ure it out

I just needed to see your face

I had to know if I was right"

"You’re not

Cross was never a patient of mine"

"Seo about your days seething over the fact that your wife fell in love with him, think about what you did to a se as anger surged

I couldn’t think about what had happened to Gideon without wanting to do serious violence to anyone who contributed to his pain

I uncrossed s and stood

"What happened between hi adults

What happened to him as a child was a crime and how you contributed to that is a travesty"

"Get out"

"My pleasure"

I yanked the door open and nearly ran into Gideon, who’d been leaning against the wall just outside the office

His hand encircled aze was on Dr

Lucas, icy with fury and hatred

"Stay away from her," he said harshly

Lucas’s smile was filled withsest you run in the opposite direction"

"Funny

That’s the advice I gave her in regard to you"

I flipped the good doctor the bird

Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulledpeople the finger?" "What? It’s a classic"

"You can’t just barge in here!" the receptionist snapped as we passed the counter

He glanced at her

"You can cancel that call to security, we’re leaving"

We exited out to the corridor

"Did Angus tattle on gling

All the cars have GPS tracking"

"You’re a nut job

You know that?" He stabbed the elevator button and glared at me

"I am? What about you? You’re all over the place

My mother

Corinne

Godda, Eva?" "It’s none of your business"

I lifted htened

He stood there in his suit, looking so polished and urbane, while radiating a wild, feverish energy

The contrast bethat I sahen I looked at hiot to have the man inside the suit

Every delicious, untameable inch of him

The car arrived and we stepped inside

Exciteh me

He’d come after me

That made me so hot

He shoved an elevator key into the control panel and I groaned

"Is there anything you don’t own in New York?" He was on me in an instant, one hand in my hair and the other on my ass, his ue thrusting between ripped his waist, pushing onto my tiptoes to deepen the contact

His teeth sank into h force to hurt

"You think you can say a feords and end us? There is no end, Eva"

He flattened me into the side of the car

I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently arousedhiel"

He was kissing me: deep, shamelessly desperate kisses that ?" he breathed

"You’re going around, stirring up everything"

"I’ve got time on my hands," I shot back, just as breathless, "since I durowled, fiercely passionate, his hand in htly it pained me

"You can’t make this up with a kiss or a fuck, Gideon

Not this tio; nearly iht and opportunity to touch him

I needed him

His forehead pressed to mine

"You have to trust me"

I put aze searching my face

"Not when you don’t talk to me"

I reached over, pulled the key froan its descent

"You put h hell

On purpose

Made ht

I don’t knohat the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr

Jekyll and Mr

Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me"

His hand went into his pocket, his movements leisurely and controlled, which hen he was at his eable"

"When I’ve got clothes on