Love's Fortress by Samantha Kane

Author:Samantha Kane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Book/Menage
ISBN: 9781419928352
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2010-07-22T23:00:00+00:00

“Your guilt is misplaced. If it has kept you here, then you should go.” Gideon could hear how clipped his words were, how icy his tone. He was furious and unable to hide it.

“My guilt is misplaced?” Charles rose from his chair to stand behind it gripping the back. “My guilt has been placed precisely where it ought to be—behind your actions.”

“You are not, nor were you ever, in charge of my life or my actions.” Gideon tried to rise from his chair but sat down abruptly when he lost his balance. He glared at Charles from where he was sitting.

Charles had gone pale. He pointed at Gideon with a shaking hand. “That—that is what I’m responsible for. I pursued you, Gideon. You know I did. I forced you—” He turned away.

“You did no such thing. What happened between us was by mutual consent.”

Gideon did not want to talk about it. He thought about it nearly every damn day and had for six years. But he did not want to talk about it.

“What happened between us?” Charles gave a snort of disgust. “I’ll tell you what happened. We fucked, Gideon,” he hissed quietly. “I chased and I chased and finally I caught you in a weak moment and I begged you to take me. And you did. And then you hated yourself and me for it. Hated yourself enough to go on a suicide mission. I might as well have just killed you when it was done.”

Gideon couldn’t have been more stunned if Charles had picked up his chair and hit him over the head with it. “Is that what you think? That I hated it? That I hated you?”

“Please,” Charles said angrily, “don’t try to deny it. You have not spoken of it, ever.

It is as if once it was over it never happened. Don’t try to tell me it meant something.

I’m not a woman, to believe that lie.”

“No,” Gideon said calmly, “but you are more a fool than I ever thought you could be.”

Charles stared at him incredulously. “What?”

“I will say this once and never again. I liked it. I wanted it, and when you offered that day I finally let myself give in. I thought I’d lost you. I watched you fall and thought a bullet had taken you and all I could think was that I hadn’t had you. So as soon as I could I dragged you off to the woods and I fucked you. There, now you know.” Charles was gaping at him. Gideon nodded. “Oh yes. You thought all this time you were the great seducer. Well, I was willing. Willing and able and eager.” He was spitting his words out now.

He couldn’t sit still anymore. He rose from his chair carefully and grabbed his crutches and walked over to the other side of the room. “I liked it too much. I knew that if I didn’t keep my distance we’d be found out, because I had a damn hard time hiding how much I wanted you.

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