Chapter 19

Humiliation coursed through her. He was right. She’d put up absolutely no fight whatsoever. What was she doing? This wasn’t the kind of thing she’d normally do. This was Kaleb, Tilly’s brother… And he had a girlfriend. Yet she’d slept with him!

“Look, I have an apartment in Rome. Come along and stay with me for the weekend.”

His abrupt change of subject caught her unawares. “What?” Sasha automatically shook her head and quailed slightly under the harsh light in his eyes. “No, I can’t,”

“Why not?” he asked softly, softly enough to disarm her for a second.

Sasha looked up. Caught between two worlds, she found herself instinctively clinging on to something in Kaleb’s eyes.

“I will have my plane at your disposal,” he added.

“But that’s crazy.”

He shushed her. “At your disposal. It will be at the airport on Friday evening, ready to take you to Rome to meet me. I would like you to use it, Sasha. I would like you to stay with me. I won’t force you