car, her fingers worrying the edge of the new phone in her pocket-the same device Garnet had programme

nking about?" Gar

ike for you to disappear from my l

fraid you're going

st time she'd seen him display a micro-second of uncertainty, mat

eca. It pulled up in front of Eatal

uckled his

refrigerator is

ty-she hadn't restocked since the night she

" she said throu

e turne

his car, or I can carr

at the bar. Humiliated, her j

ottle of Barolo, fresh pasta. Giselle trailed behind him

inegar, asking her preference. She s

or a half-second as if he actually cared about her preference,

ment. When they arrived, Garnet got o

im at the entranc

e bags. You

oak door of her apartment. He reached into

turning to ice, as he slid

to pay for Diandra's disgraced bill, the same shade as the P

red. "How do you ha

open. He pushed

e answered with chilling

Aethelgard formula was useless without her bi

her sanctuary a

et out of my apartm

and and shrugged off his suit jacket. He beg

e'd seen on the cover of Forbes months ago, the silver

with a disturbing familiarit

er to him, gra

u think you

ss steel of the Sub-Zero, trapping her. He braced

ataly, the same dark, smoky note that had clung to him

ches from hers. His voice w

nd. The moment you kissed me in that bar, everything that is yo

nto his dark, u

till, his lips alm

I told you," he murmured, his breath hot

ne in her pocket. He thought he owned everything-but he didn't know she stil