“I can tell by the look on your face that you’ve been thinking about me,” Terry said.

My stomach twisted. The champagne I had enjoyed only a moment ago soured in my mouth.

Susie shrunk, half–hiding behind me. Terry didn’t even look at her, his entire attention was focused on

  1. me.

I didn’t reply to him. I simply stood there trying not to be sick on the ballroom floor.

Terry didn’t seem to mind. He continued on without even a dent to his smile.

“Congratulations, Piper. You’ve enamored two different brothers. No simple act. Though I can

understand why they are taken with you.”

I swallowed down the rising bile in my throat. “Thank you.It was all I could manage. I knew what lied beyond his friendly façade, and now that the image of him had been permanently tainted, I struggled to

rebuild my own fake friendly face to deal with him.

“You must forgive me,” he said. “Our time was cut so short the last time we were together. But I am

hoping we can claim more along time again soon.”

I

words turned a few heads around me. People were

were

“The competition organizers keep us all very busy.

possibly find time…”

Don’t forget

no one would say a

said something charming and

what Terry had tried to do to me, but I

couldn’t see how uncomfortable

myself in it. Anything to get away from him and this

so the eavesdroppers couldn’t hear, he

his possessive tone and the unwanted fire

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no one here to save me. I had to save myself. I drew courage from the knowledge that he couldn’t touch me

everyone would look.

are going to be disappointed, because you will never

you think what

powerful man. I

a much greater threat than those given to me

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