Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me. How lucky was I?

You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.

Are you hurting anywhere else?" I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we'd had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. "Here." "So am I." He kissed my fingertips, then linked our hands and led me.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.