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“So you said. And I know.”
“Whatisyour last name, Athena?”
She looked blank then. “McKenzie. Or, it is now. The only one I know. I would have claimed my father’s. But that is not real. It is not real. None of it was.”
“I will help you. I will help you find the truth of your past.”
He paused for a moment. “If that is what you want. You must understand that the answers might not be what you want them to be.”
“Spoken like a man with a dark past.”
“It is. There is no happy secret behind me. There is nothing but tragedy, desperation and debauchery. Nothing but pain.”
“And yet it made you who you are.”
He laughed. “Yes. It did. The man you see before you is little more than a monster. Why do you think what I have been made could be positive in any regard?”
“Because. I see many positive things in you. You’re brilliant. You’re very strong. And you are an excellent cook.”
“I am not.”
“Let’s go out. We can ease in. How many years has it been since you were in a restaurant?”
“Ten years.”
“And I have never been to one. Please. Let us go out in Paris. We’re still no one. No one and nothing.”
“But with all the resources in the world.”
“A boon for us. Let us enjoy it.”
She looked at him, and something mischievous lit her dark eyes. “Put on a suit.”
“Why?”
“Because I think you look rather... Dashing in a suit.”
“And will you dress for me?”
“Yes.”
“Then wear red.”
CHAPTER TEN
ATHENAZIPPEDHERdress up with trembling hands. It was skintight and only went to the middle of her thigh. Much more scandalous than anything she had ever worn while living at the compound. It showed the curve of her waist, hips, left nothing to the imagination when it came to her back end. And as far as her breasts went... It molded to them perfectly, her golden curves pushed up and revealed to a near indecent degree.
But he would appreciate it. She had seen the way she looked at him when they had danced. He looked hungry.
And you wish to encourage him?
She did. She couldn’t explain her connection to Cameron. Except she was beginning to feel that she had not run into that cabin in the woods out of simple desperation. But that perhaps something had guided her there.
He was a man set apart. A man who had not had anyone come into his home for a decade. So why had she happened upon him? That seemed to be the real question.
Maybe she was silly. She could accept that.
But her whole life had been positioned outside the ordinary. Why should she expect to be any less now?
