His eyes flashed with reduction and one thing heat…real.

She withheld a snort. Wishful pondering was what had all however destroyed her the primary time round. She wouldn’t undergo it a second time.

The one one who’d get to expertise that type of ache now was Aiden. He deserved to really feel even a smidgen of her previous heartache, together with its humiliating aftertaste.

“I’m glad,” he mentioned eventually.

“Me too.”

Knock. Knock.

He crossed his arms. “That might be your garments.”

Her chair scraped again as she stood. “That might be Bernard.”

She didn’t count on Aiden to face up, too, then stride towards the door and swing it open. She hurried over. The very last thing she wished was for Bernard to be intimidated by Aiden.

She was a little bit bit relieved to discover a safety guard standing beside her housemate. However in fact Bernard wouldn’t have recognized the pin quantity for the non-public elevator.

She smiled warmly. “Bernard, hello!”

He smiled warmly again. “Luna, I used to be beginning to get frightened about you.” He seemed her up and down, his smile fading at seeing her wrapped in a bedsheet. “Are you okay?”

She felt Aiden’s burning stare swing between her and the opposite man. It was sufficient ammunition for her to crack the door open wider and say, “In fact! Why don’t you are available in?”

He stepped inside, her bag in a single hand and a bottle of wine within the different. “When you’re certain.”

She put her arms round his neck and stepped in shut for a hug. “In fact I’m certain.” She stepped again and turned an enormous, faux smile Aiden’s approach, all too conscious he was bristling. A scrumptious shiver went via her from her toes to her head and again once more. “Provided that Aiden doesn’t thoughts?”

“Why ought to I thoughts?” he requested with a scowl he didn’t hassle to cover. “It should give me an opportunity to seek out out extra concerning the girl I had in my mattress final night time.”’

Bernard’s face blanched, his inexperienced eyes glittering. “Whenever you mentioned there have been belongings you wanted to do, Luna, I wasn’t anticipating…that.”

She sucked in a breath at Aiden’s audacity, then put a hand on Bernard’s shoulder, doing her finest to reassure him. “I’m a grown girl, Bernard. I could make my very own selections.”

“And I supplied you the world!” he bit out.

She dropped her hand and stepped again. She’d thought he’d accepted they wouldn’t be greater than associates after the mile excessive debacle. Clearly it’d been a mistake bringing him right here. She glanced at Aiden. Or maybe not. Aiden didn’t like this one bit, both. They have been on his turf and going by his flashing eyes and flared nostrils he was clearly territorial.

“Properly…thanks for the garments,” she mentioned, her voice indifferent. It was pointless making an attempt to make him really feel higher when it was clear he wasn’t in a conciliatory temper.

“That’s all you’ve obtained to say?” Bernard requested. He dropped her bag subsequent to her ft. “I believed you have been higher than this,” he added, sweeping out a hand.

Aiden stepped shut and put a free arm round her shoulders. “Who wants the world when a penthouse suite with a lover on faucet is obtainable twenty-four-seven—proper, snufflecake?”

Snufflecake?

She despatched him a scathing look, whereas inside part of her laughed at his dry humorousness. “Proper.” She shrugged off his arm, all too rapidly craving for his possessive contact whilst she stepped away from him and clasped Bernard’s free hand.

“I recognize you bringing my garments. I’ll be in contact, okay.”

Bernard seemed from her to Aiden and again once more. “When you say so,” he mentioned stiffly. He handed her the bottle of wine. “You would possibly as nicely rejoice with this.” Then stepping away from her, he pivoted and strode out the door and not using a backward look.

Aiden shut the door, then turned to her and mentioned smugly, “Might the higher man win.”

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