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And what she resented most of all was how conflicted she felt. Angry with him one moment, intrigued the next. Missing him, of all the strange things, and then ready to find him and attack him with her bare hands.
“I,” he said, “have been called much worse.”
“And yet you have no desire to reform?”
He laughed then, a dark, unsettling sound. “Oh, I have been reformed, little goddess. On that you will have to trust me.”
Cameron sat down at his desk and called Apollo. “I have a plan.”
“Why do I not like the sound of your tone?”
“These days it seems that you don’t like anything about me, Apollo. It seems strange that we still consider ourselves friends.”
“Don’t take it personally. Or do. It is of no concern to me.”
“In one month I will be in London for the launch of the new product. I promise you that. But I will not be alone.”
“You won’t be?”
“No. I will be bringing with me a wife.”
CHAPTER FIVE
HEGOTHERa horse, as promised. Over the intercom he told her to go outside one afternoon, where he had the animal waiting for her.
He watched from the shadows as she lit up with glory, pleased over the appearance of the creature.
Then he slipped back into the passages that he used in the house. The ones that carried him through secret halls so that he could move around as needed and remain unseen.
He had historically used them when the staff had come to clean the house, but now he used them to navigate around Athena.
He would face her. When he was ready.
Or rather, when she was.
He wondered what the girl would think of him. She was cosseted.
She would never have seen anyone who looked as he did.
He told himself that this was not about his vanity. He also told himself it had nothing to do with the fact that this was the closest he had been to another person in a decade.
There was no room left for tenderness inside of him. Had it ever existed?
He and Apollo had always been jaded playboys. He felt in many ways that he had been born one.
Growing up on the streets both he and Apollo had sold their morality and their bodies and had thought little of it. If you were closed off completely inside then nothing could touch you.
It was easy to sell yourself. It was a renewable resource, after all.
But there was more money in being brilliant, and thankfully, he and Apollo were that as well.
Finding an old computer had changed their lives. It had just made sense to Cameron. And his natural ability with programming had sparked something else in Apollo.
“You know, we use what we were born with to make money. We should use this. Your skills. You’re a genius.”
“I don’t know about that.”
“No doubt you can change the world with this, most people would need the most cutting-edge technology and a college education.”
