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Had she expected this to be easy?
“The ring is yours, no matter what.”
“No.” Frantically she shook her head. Her thoughts ran together, and the urge to run filled her, making her pulse thunder in her ears. “It was never anything more than an expensive prop.” The lie nearly choked her. To her it had been so, so much more. Which had made it difficult to wear. At some point, deep down, she’d fallen in love with him and wanted the whole thing to be real.
“Look…” He sucked in a shallow breath. “Why don’t we talk about this tomorrow? You agreed to cohost my New Year’s party. That was part of the deal. Maybe—”
“You can keep your money.”
“Think about this, I implore you.”
“I’ll find another way. Or stay home. I can’t keep pretending.”
“There’s nothing pretend about our sex, the way you respond to me.”
Frantically she shook her head. “Sex is only one part of life. People have feelings.”And mine are being shredded. “Your grandmother… God.” A tear squeezed from the corner of her eye. “She believed it. Which is what you wanted. But, damn, she’s going to be hurt, and I never signed up for that.” Frantically she tried to blink away the tears, but they fell, unchecked. “She thinks we’re going to have kids. Gave me a family treasure. How…” Kaylee gasped for air. “How could we have done this to her?”
He reached to wipe away the dampness from her face, but she captured his finger. “Don’t. Don’t touch me.”If you do, I might come undone.
Driven by desperation, she forced the door open.
“At least let me walk you inside.”
Refusing to answer, she fled, his vicious curse word echoing on the night air.
As if escaping from the hell of her own making, she ran up the stairs, and once she was inside, locked the door.
Shaking, she collapsed on the couch, wrapping her arms around her upturned knees and dropping her head onto them.
She had thought the breakup with Dwayne had destroyed her, but she had never come close to this depth of feeling before. Evan Frost filled up so much of her life—dominating both work and private—that she’d foolishly fallen in love with him somewhere along the line.
Stupid, stupid…
Then, as sobs racked her body, her soul shattered.
CHAPTERELEVEN
What the fuck?
In stunned silence, Frost sat there, watching Kaylee flee, fighting against every damn male instinct that urged him to chase her down, throw her over his shoulder, and drag her back to his house where she belonged, then fuck her senseless until all the struggle left her.
Instead he was forced to grip the steering wheel until his knuckles whitened.
This was so fucking wrong.
They needed to talk this out, come to some sort of…What?
Compromise?
For Frost, there was no compromise.
He wanted her in his life on his terms, and she’d refused to even talk to him. Until now, he’d known how to get what he wanted with her. But this version of her, with insurmountable walls, was one he’d never faced before.
All he knew was she’d been frantic to get away, despite his stupid, clumsy attempts to hold her money hostage. The truth was, she’d rather skip her sister’s wedding than spend time with him.
What the hell was even happening here?
A security guard riding a golf cart stopped behind him and strode to Frost’s car window and tapped on it with an oversize flashlight. “Everything okay, sir?”
