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"Why do you hate hi doors

Thunder ru rain had ceased, leaving the streets awash in dirty water

He joined me on the sidewalk and set his hand at the sh e notes?" "Sure

Why not?" By the tiood idea of what fueled Christopher’s hatred

All he cared about was the man he saw in the mirror

Gideon was more handsome, richer, more powerful, more confident

just more

And Christopher was obviously being eaten alive by jealousy

His memories of Gideon were colored by the belief that Gideon had received all the attention as a child

Whichhow troubled he was

Worse, the sibling rivalry had crossed over into their professional lives when Cross Industries acquired majority shares in Vidal Records

I made a mental note to ask Gideon why he’d done that

We stopped outside the Crossfire to part ways

A taxi racing through a huge puddle sent a plu under ed the spray and almost stumbled into Christopher

"I’d like to take you out soet in touch," I hedged

"My rooht now and I need to be around for hiot esture I’

"And I’ll keep in touch"

Idoors and headed for the turnstiles

One of the black-suited security guards at the desk stopped me

"Miss Tramell"

He smiled

"Could you come with me, please?" Curious, I followed hiotten e when I was hired

He opened the door for ainst the desk with his arms crossed, he looked beautiful and fuckable and wryly a his head

"Are there other people inona protective eye on you"

I arched a brow at him

"And how do you know if I harassed him or not?" His faint smile widened

"Because I know you"

"Well, I didn’t harass hiued when he shotto, but then I didn’t

And why are we in this roo around each other, and I wasn’t sure why

And I didn’t care, because sonificant

"Do you realize that your reaction to my lunch with Christopher is very cal ti totally different froo"

He was different

He s of his lips

"We trust each other, Eva

It feels good, doesn’t it?""Trusting you doesn’ton between us

Why are we hiding in this office?" "Plausible deniability"

Gideon straightened and ca my face in his hands, he tilted my head back and kissed ood at saying that"

He ran his fingers through htmare and I was out late? You wondered where I was"

"I still wonder"

"I was at the hotel, clearing out that roo that while you were puking your guts out didn’t seem to be the appropriate time"

My breath left me in a rush

It was a relief to knohere he’d been

An even bigger relief to know that the fuck pad was no aze was soft as he looked at otten about it until it came up with Dr

Petersen

We both know I’ll never use it again

My girl prefers modes of transportation to beds"

He suard filled the open doorway and I shoved aside hts to exarasp where they were leading me

On the walk ho apple juice in lieu of cha along, ever ready to pull over and pickconnection it represented deepened ht of it ht

Abstinence and some space had cleared my head

Soer, ranted

I loved him more now than I ever had, and I felt that hile I was planning on a night just hanging out with ht be with

It didn’t hts, in his heart