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“I’m not. I don’t have any reason to lie. You have told me that you want nothing from me physically, why would I...”
He released his hold on her, and her heart began to thunder hard.
“Let us go choose you a ring. I will not touch you, Athena. And you will thank me for it later. I am nothing more than a curse. Make no mistake. If it weren’t for my loyalty to Apollo I would never have agreed to any of this.”
“I don’t believe that. Because I don’t believe that you do a damn thing you don’twantto do. You are pretending that you had no choice and I cannot for the life of me fathom why. Why you need to believe that.”
“It will do you no good to try and peer inside the darkness.”
“Blah blah blah,” she said, feeling irritated. “So terrifying. As if I didn’t live with a crime lord for most of my life.”
“Do not push me.”
“Somebody has to.”
They said nothing, and when they arrived at the jewelry store, he took her hand, but she thought that he pulled her a bit roughly from the car. The only way that he could express his irritation. And in kind, she made sure to bump against him a bit harder than necessary as they walked into the store.
“It seems as if it would be after hours.”
“Apollo made a call.”
“How handy to have a charming billionaire for a friend. Perhaps I like him.”
He turned to her, and he did not touch her, but his eyes pinned her to the spot.
Those blue, electric eyes. “You will not.”
“You told me I could go out and have however many lovers as I want to.”
She was goading him now and she knew it. It thrilled her. Filled her with that same delicious fear she’d felt at the castle. Was it wrong there was a thrill to it?
She didn’t care. She didn’t.
Her whole life had been somewhat wrong, why could she not have the wrong she wanted?
And the wrong she wanted wasn’t Apollo, but she did like making Cameron go fierce.
“Nothim,” he growled.
“Why not?”
“Because if I have to know a man who has seen your naked body, I will not be held responsible for what I do to him.”
He walked into the shop, and left her standing on the sidewalk, the breath pulled from her body. She scurried along behind him quickly.
“Mr. McKenzie,” said the elderly man attending to the display counter. “We were told to expect you. We were also told not to allow for any onlookers.”
The windows behind them were suddenly covered with black curtains that fell from the ceiling.
“Thank you,” said Cameron.
It was funny, to watch him attempt to interact with other people. To watch him make an attempt at politeness.
“And who is this lovely lady?” the older man asked.
“Athena,” she said.
“My wife,” he said. “We married so quickly we had time to find a priest, but not the rings. We are about to make our debut as a couple, and I wish for her to have something stunning.”
