Page 15 of A Diamond Deal
A beautiful liar.
He stopped in front of her.
‘You will come with me.’ He raised long, tanned fingers.
Was he trembling?
No.
Konstantinos didn’t tremble.
He felt nothing.
She stepped back out of reach. Her back met metal. ‘Don’t touch me.’
She didn’t want his hands on her.
She didn’t crave his touch.
She didn’t miss the sweep of his fingers on her skin.
She didn’t yearn for the all-encompassing heat of his body enveloping her.
She didn’t long for the security of his arms.
He wasn’t safe.
His gaze narrowed. ‘Don’t touch you?’
Her stomach flipped. ‘Go away, Konstantinos.’
He inched towards her. Invaded her space. Swallowed the air and replaced it with him.Only him.And it washed over her. A scent so familiar, so earthy.
She wouldn’t breathe him in!
But she already had.Too deeply. All she could taste was him. And he tasted of the shattered shards of broken vows.
‘I’m going nowhere without you.’
‘Why would I go anywhere with you?’
Dark eyes burrowed into hers. ‘You abandoned me—imploded my life. Devastated my reputation,’ he said on a heated hiss. ‘You owe me an explanation.’
She wouldn’t feel guilty.
He deserved it!
He was a fraud.
Just like Dad.
‘I owe you nothing.’
‘Oh, but you do,poulaki mou.’
The endearment thrust her back to too long ago, to a once-upon-a-time fairy tale that had never existed.
‘I’mnotyour little bird.’ She spat out the lie, because she had been his.Only his.
