One Hell of a Guy (Infernal Love Book 1) by Tessa Blake

Author:Tessa Blake [Blake, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Happy Ever After
Published: 2018-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Gabriel took both his hands off her, very deliberately, and stepped all the way to the other side of the sitting area. “Of what, exactly, are you accusing me?” he said, his voice very cold.

“No,” she said. “I don’t mean—”

“You are making a comparison I would ask you to evaluate very carefully,” he said, and it was evident from the cadence of his speech that he was choosing his words very precisely. “We were both there in that parking garage an hour ago. Are you seriously trying to draw a parallel between that situation and this?”

She shook her head. “No.”

“Then what?”

“I just mean….” What did she mean? “I just mean— I want to know I can choose. I don’t want you using your mojo on me.”

He sighed again, shook his head. “My mojo, as you call it, doesn’t have an off switch.”

“Have you tried?”

“I’ve had no reason to try,” he said, sounding pretty pissed off. “You’re the first to complain, that’s for sure.”

“And that’s another thing,” she said. “I don’t like the idea that if I did get involved with you, every woman in the five boroughs is going to be tossing herself at you.”

“I don’t want any other woman in the five boroughs,” he said, “or anywhere else, for that matter. I’m tired of women tossing themselves at me. It’s boring.”

“You said that,” she said. “The first night in Abaddon, you said that to the bartender.”

He leaned his hip against the nearest wingback chair, looked down at his hands for moment. “The thing you have to understand, Lily, is women have always thrown themselves at me, for as long as I’ve been aware of women. I thought it was because of something I did—because I was smart, or because I lettered in track—”

“Didn’t they notice you could run faster than everyone else in the world, or were stronger, or whatever?”

He shook his head. “For whatever reason, those things didn’t manifest until Vivienne showed up and told me what I am. But the appeal to women was always there. At the time, I thought it was something I’d done. Or hell, maybe just because I was good-looking.”

“Being good-looking isn’t something you do,” she said. “Even in … mere mortals, that’s genetics.”

“Maybe, but I could have eaten a lot more pizza and done a lot less exercise. And I went to school with plenty of guys who washed their hair once a week whether—”

“—they needed it or not,” she finished, and smiled shyly. “My dad used to say that. Okay, so you were a hottie and you loved it when the chicks were all nuts about you. This isn’t exactly reassuring.”

He shook his head. “My point is, I thought I’d earned the attention, that I was something special. And then Vivienne turned up, a year and a half ago now, and she told me what I really am. And I realized I hadn’t earned a damn thing. None of those women liked me because of me or because of anything I’d done.

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