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As she should,he thought.
Then why did he want her looking at him?Fuck.He was sick, coveting the sweet, innocent female.Eduardo exhaled slowly and stood up, turning his back on her.
He fucking had to.If he looked at her for one more minute, bathed in moonlight, surrounded by snow and ice, like some winter woodland nymph who only ventured out at night, he was going to lose his fucking mind.
I’m getting downright fanciful.Shit.Get a fucking grip.
“Wait.Where are you going?”she asked, and fuck, she placed her hand on his arm.
“Back.This was an accident.I did not mean to come here?—”
“Coming here in your fur was no accident, Eduardo.You know what you are to me.I do not understand, What have I done wrong?”
He cocked his head but remained facing away from her.Shit.This was bad.
“Nothing.Why would you think that?”
“Because, for days and nights, you stayed by my side after you rescued me and now you won’t even look at me.I must have done something for you to reject me.”
“It is not rejection, Alina.You deserve so much more than I could give you?—”
“You think I am so shallow?I am just some stupid little girl who wants things from you.Is that how you see me?”she asked and the pain in her voice broke his damn heart.
Shit.He was fucking this up.
“Your brother is my best friend and my boss, Alina.I can’t do this.Do you understand?”
“No.I love my brother.But he does not choose for me.I choose for me.Konstantin must live his own life and I must live mine.”
“If I acted on this impulse, it would be a betrayal, Alina,” he said, begging her to understand.
“Impulse,” she scoffed, and then he saw them, the tears streaking her face.“That is what I am to you, then?Just an impulse?”
“Alina, I am no good for you,” he confessed.
“Why not?”
“Because,” he growled, desperation in his voice.
Images flashed through Eddie’s brain of when she’d been kidnapped.Alina tied to a bed.Drugged.Beaten.With guards leering at her.
Grrrr.
“I am a killer.I am stained.Don’t you see that?How can you want these hands to touch you knowing what I have done and what I would do again,” he growled, more beast than man at that moment.
Maybe that was why when she stepped forward, taking his hands in hers and placing them on her body, Eddie could not help himself.
He pounced.
ChapterFour
Alina was going after what she wanted, regardless of the big Bear’s refusal to see the truth.She was not made of glass.
Alina was a Tigress.A predator in her own right.When she wanted something, she went after it.Right now, she wanted Eduardo Valens.In fact, she wanted him for always.
Mine.
But she was tired of waiting.Taking matters into her own hands was scary, but she was used to that.Hadn’t she gone up against some of the toughest Russian directors and dancers to fight for her spot in the ballet?
