Bound Hearts - 09 - Wicked Pleasures by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

He caught her arm, halting her before she could move an inch. "No, you'll be with me. Chase can play his games with someone else."

He turned and pulled her from the room.

"Running away, Cam?" Chase snapped. "Why doesn't that surprise me?" Cam stopped in the doorway as Jaci glanced up in time to see the regret, the loss that flashed across his face.

"It shouldn't surprise you in the least," he finally said, his voice bleak. "After all, I think I've gotten damned good at it in the past years. Almost as good as you have."

21

Jaci managed to hold onto her temper, barely, as Cam drove back to the apartment. She kept her lips pressed tightly together and warned herself repeatedly that this wasn't any of her business. Not yet. Not until her and Cam's relationship was more established. She didn't have the right to make certain demands, she reminded herself. She didn't have the right to tell him what unacceptable assholes both of them were being.

And perhaps that was the point where she lost control of the temper she swore she wouldn't lose. Because it was her business.

It seemed as though she had waited all her life to be with one man. She had pushed herself away from him, she had fought her battles on her own, and she was still doing so. And she still managed to find a way to love. Cam refused to risk himself that far, even for his own brother. If he wouldn't risk brotherly love, what the hell made her think he was going to risk loving her?

"This situation between me and Chase has nothing to do with you." Cam finally spoke as he drove, his body rigid and corded with tension. "This won't happen again, I promise."

"Then it's a promise you'll break," she forced out, staring out the window of the Jaguar. "He's your brother; he'll do whatever it takes to find out what happened."

She could feel the tension thicken in the car.

"Nothing happened." Hard, cold, his voice had the bite of winter, freezing to the bone. She turned to him then. Slowly. That last thread of anger was fraying, and God knows, she didn't want to lose her grip on it.

"You couldn't convince a five-year-old of that, so don't lie to me." His hands tightened on the steering wheel and the gear shift, his knuckles turning white from the force.

"This is none of his business," he said quietly when she clamped her lips shut and turned away from him again.

She couldn't stand to see that ragged sorrow on his face. He was hurting inside, and sometimes she wondered if she didn't make the pain worse. Because whatever drove him was eating into him now, tearing at him, and she could see it, feel it.

"I have to disagree with you, Cam. He's your brother, your twin."

"That doesn't make him my keeper," he snapped out. "I've dealt with my life and my own mistakes, and he's going to have to deal with the fact that he doesn't need to know every corner of my life.

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