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He was not a beautiful man with the touch of predator. He was the Tiger.
All the way through.
Anything else was simply a facade. A gleam of gold and stripes to distract, of burning eyes, dancing fire that hypnotized and left his prey stunned, immobilized, willingly standing there waiting for the strike. And strike he had.
She had wanted so badly to remember... She had wanted so badly to remember.
The falling in love. But it didn’t exist. Oh, she had fallen in love with him. And he had slaked his lust with her.
He hadusedher.
Nothing more. She had told him everything about herself, and she couldn’t remember him because he had told her nothing. Nothing. The only truths she had ever learned about him were during that first night. That first night when he had told her about his mother. But it had been nothing more than basic facts. Nothing more than the barest hint of information. There had been no real emotion behind it. She had put it all there.
Because she had wanted to see it.
She had created a beautiful life for herself, and he had been there, the scaffolding for it.
But this...
He had lied to her. He knew that she didn’t remember, and he had lied.
“Tell me,” she said, her throat tightening. “Tell me the truth.”
“We should be together,” he said, his voice scraped raw.
“Why? Why should we be together?”
“For Soriya,” he said. “She needs you.”
“I can take care of her fine on my own.”
And that statement jogged more of her memory. It was the after. She had left. She had left him after that night in the rain, after the bleeding and the pain.
And suddenly, grief spread out through her chest like a poison.
She had lost him. And for a while she believed she had lost her pregnancy. But she had gone to the doctor when her period didn’t resume a few weeks later, and they had confirmed the viability of her pregnancy. The bleeding didn’t mean she had miscarried.
But she had spent the pregnancy alone. And Krav hadn’t known.
“What happened to me?” she asked, her heart pounding so hard it made her dizzy. She was sick with it, with this.
Staring down the man who had become the ultimate villain in her life. And she’d fallen in love with him a second time. It made her wish for that blankness again. It made her wish she knew nothing, because knowing this truth about him, about herself, was too much to bear.
She’d fallen for this man a second time. Even though somewhere inside herself she had to have known what he was.
“I told you the truth,” he said. “You were in an accident. It was how I discovered you were still pregnant.”
“Oh. Because you thought that I had lost the baby. And you... You sent me away anyway.”
His expression hardened. “You left.”
But she could see herself, curled up in a massive bed in his empty house. Then could see the staff carefully taking her to the car...
So gentle, all that betrayal. Wrapped in soft sheets and sent away in a limousine.
But it was rejection, a mortal wounding all the same.
“Because you wanted me to. You might not have thrown me out into the street, but you made it clear you wanted me gone, and if I hadn’t left you probably would never have returned to the villa. Don’t rewrite it even now that I remember. But you’re right. Then I wanted to. I never wanted to see you again. Ever. You destroyed me. You took my dreams after you gave them to me, and there is nothing crueler than that, Krav. And you knew that if I remembered... You know if I remembered I would never want to see you again.”
