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“If you want to tell yourself what we had was nothing special,” I say, “then lies must not bother you as much as you say they do. I can’t lie to you, but it’s okay for you to lie to yourself?”
“I make my own compliments. How does it feel knowing you could bring a man like me to my knees?”
“It’s a shame you’ll set your resentment aside long enough to elect a Cade,” I say, “but can’t find it in yourself to forgive one.”
“I’ve spent the last ten years getting what I want, not because I’m a Cade but because I work harder than everyone else. I keep working after everyone else has gone home. I take risks no one else even considers. I don’t give up on seemingly lost causes. When I want something, really want something, I’ll do whatever I have to until I have it.”
“The harder I have to work for something, the harder I take it.”
“Talk to me, Nix,” he says, watching my face closely in the moonlight. “Tell me what you’re thinking.”
“You thought I would laugh about you fucking someone else?” he asks, a serrated edge to his voice. “I don’t find that funny at all.”
My light laughter fizzles into a thickening silence. He doesn’t crack a smile. “You’re being really intense right now, Doc.” “I thought you knew I’m pretty intense when it comes to you.”
“You’re a wolf in wolf’s clothing. You’ll want everything.”
“Everything.” His agreement comes softly, but his eyes turn hard as sea glass. “There’ll be no one else for you.”
“Who are these guys who’ve had you making all those pesky choices about where you’ll go and what you’ll do? Don’t they know you have better things to do than think about dates? I handled all of that for you. You’re welcome.”
“Something about that isn’t right. I hate it when you charm the logic out of everything.”
“I’m thirty-eight years old. I don’t ‘make out’ anymore.”
I’d forgotten how each conversation with Maxim opens up something I’d never considered. His mind reaches for things most people would never imagine.
Our fingers brush, and that same charge zips over my nerve endings in a way I’ve never experienced with anyone else. My body finds a thousand ways to tell me Maxim is distinct. It has refused to offer this response to any other man,
Her eyes open, flaring at the commanding, possessive tone I can’t suppress any longer. She was right about me. I am a wolf in wolf’s clothing, and I’ll consume her if she’ll let me. I won’t leave even a crumb for another man. She is mine.
“What can I do for you, Mr. Cade?” she asks, her voice teasing, husky. I brush a few flyaway strands from her face. “Don’t shut me out ever again.”
my body spilling all its secrets to hers,
I gain the one thing that has eluded me all these years.
