Cindy Gerard - [Bodyguards 05] by Under the Wire

Author:Under the Wire
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

If Manny had said, “I know you are an alien,” Lily couldn’t have been more stunned. It took her a moment to find her voice.

“My lover? You think Poveda was my lover? For God’s sake, Manny, why would you think that? After all we’d done together? All we’d been to each other? Granted, we were only together for a week, but we shared everything. Did you really not know me? Did you not have even a clue who I was?”

“I didn’t then,” he said quietly, and a muscle in his jaw worked. “I only figured it out later.”

She actually laughed. “Well then, by all means, enlighten me. Who was I?”

He had the balls to actually try to be patient. “You were a woman with a hatred for men,” he said with a grim conclusiveness that stunned her.

“Hatred? What are you talking about?”

“Your ex-husband. Men before him.” He lifted a hand. “You told me. They all let you down.”

“God, Manny.” Unbelievable. “That made me disappointed, not deceitful.”

“And distrustful. You did not trust my love for you. You never trusted it.”

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