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CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“I’M NOT RUNNING now, ah the door on his heels

Aleksy halted, teeth clenching as he searched for patience Did she not realize his control was hanging by a thread? Without turning back to her, he guessed harshly, “Because you don’t knohere to go? Call Lazlo He’ll arrange a car and hotel”

“I’m not afraid of you, Aleksy Dmitriev!”

Funny, he was terrified of her Setting down the bottle and glass with deliberation, he turned and said, “You should be”

“Why? Are you going to hurt me? Kill me?”

He jerked his face to the side, blind to all but splashes of color in his field of vision while he dealt with the sense of being rent open No, he could never har heedlessly into his old wounds either

“Back off, Clair”

“You’re not a enerous and compassionate and honorable”

“What are you trying to do? Make it okay in your head that you ever let ht you clothes and gave you money for your charity because I wanted to have sex with you”

Her breath caught as if she’d taken a stiletto to the lung “That’s not true,” she gasped “It wasn’t just sex Was it?”

HeV-neck and loose jeans, ilow off the fire, her nipples pulled into dark, shiny points by his ood sex,” he ground out, dying because he’d never have her like that again

“Then why are you trying to take a bottle to bed instead ofa wild flush into her cheeks She had the gall to charge close enough to stand toe to toe with hi as the rest of her “You could be sugarcoating your past and trying to seduce ht now You know you don’t have to try very hard, so why don’t you?”

His skin tightened and her upper ar hands before he could stop hih him Take care The protective instinct couldn’t be overridden even when he was feeling so threatened he wanted to shake the daylights out of her