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Given that her mind was a clean whiteboard at thebut shock, she took a moment to shake herself into a response

“I wasn’t trying to disappear I only wanted to discuss the foundation with the people it would most closely affect, so I came here to do it Why?” She didn’t like how he put her on the defensive He’d set her out of his life like bottles for the milkman to collect She didn’t have to answer to him

At least, she wanted to be that defiant and dis in on itself and her entire being was soaking up the effect of being near hiain

“If you didn’t want to stay in London, you should have said” His arrogant decree was stated with a scowl of impatience

“Said to who? Lazlo? Nothing against the man, but he’s not my warden and definitely not my bosom chum He already knows more about my private life than I ever wanted his to him”

“To me” Aleksy loosened his tie, then drove his fists into his pockets, his agitationher think for a second—

Clair gave her head a little shake, refusing to read in to it She had let herself get all tangled up in wanting things fro to unravel hi her, but she didn’t want hiain

Even though she suspected he was doing it again and all he’d had to do was step through a door

“We’re no longer involved,” she said with as steady a voice as she couldherself as much as him With a flick of her wrist, she prompted him to close the door When it had clicked fir brilliance of his bronze eyes back on her, she countered it brutally “You paid me out, in case you didn’t know”

His jaw hardened He leaned into the door, chest rising as he absorbed her offense “I’d proe?”

“You didn’t have to do all that other stuff” She folded her ar of being bought off for her sexual favors She had thought they had shared their bodies with each other freely Hers had definitely been offered without expectation of compensation

“I’d promised you that too”