nce

licked shut behind me, and I was

ng rain that turned the city

didn't care. I just needed to

ugh my thin dress, plastering my hair to my face and neck. The chill was a shock t

the confrontation, the cold, hard anger,

ind a raw,

ragged. Tears, indistinguishable fr

I was a child again, small and lost and abandoned by the entire world. The city's no

rough the watery darkness, pulling

g my face deeper into my

umbrella bloomed in the night, a sudd

leather shoes came into view, stoppi

fully, I lif

wam into focus. Strong jaw, sharp cheekbon

Kane R

is own broad shoulder was already dark with rain, but he didn't seem to notice. The usual mock

a gentle rumble beneath the patter of the ra

sound came out. My lips tr

of vapor in the cold air. Then he bent down, sliding on

ve suit jacket, my fingers clinging to the rain-dampened fabric. His chest was a wall of solid muscle, his body radiating a

eat of the Bentley and slid in beside me, pu

silence was

my frozen skin. Kane reached over and pulled a thick, cashmere blan

as crying on a curb in the middle of a storm. He j

e dam of my control broke completely. The tears came again, hot and unst

leaned over, and his large hand was surprisingly gentle as

rmured, his voice

ed. But eventually, the sto

I finally managed to ask, my

fully neutral. "My driver saw you." It was a plausible, s

e," he said. "You should move

dn't. I couldn't trade one cage for another, no matte

saw the flicker of an argument in his eyes, but then he saw th

inally over, Karter walked back

floral scent that always clung

d into t

Hangers stood empty.

ation he'd felt earlier was gone, replaced by a gnawing,

ime, he felt it

en ripped out of his life, and he had a te