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“Damn you, Eve” He said it quietly; so quietly, so calmly, her throat burned in reaction

“What do you want from me, Roarke? You said you’d help, that I could use your connections Now, because you’re pissed about so me”

“I changed my mind” His tone was dismissive as he rose and walked behind his desk “About several things,” he added, watching her with eyes that sliced at her heart

“If you would just tell nored”

He considered for a al enterprises and shake loose of what couldn’t be changed “No,” he murmured “I don’t believe I will”

“Why are you putting me in this position?” she demanded “Is this some sort of punishment?”

He sat, leaned back, steepled his fingers “If you like”

“You’re going to be pulled into this, just like the last time There’s just no need for it” Driven by frustration, she slapped her hands on his desk “Can’t you see that?”

He looked at her face, the dark, worried eyes, the ridiculously chopped hair “I knohat I’” He hoped he did

“Roarke, don’t you understand, it’s not enough forto do with it Now I have to prove it”

He wanted to touch her, soat that moment, he wished he could hate her for it “Do you know, Eve?”

She straightened, dropped her hands to her sides “It doesn’t matter,” she said and turned and left him

But it did ht At the moment, it was all that really mattered Shaken, he shifted forward He could curse her no that those big, whiskey-colored eyes were no longer staring into hi hi for whatever scraps of her life she illing to share with him

And if he begged, if he settled, he would probably grow to hate her almost as much as he would hate himself

He kne to outwait a rival, how to outht for what he wanted or intended to have But he was no longer sure he could outwait, outht Eve