Chapter 61

“Just truth” He leaned against the car and the jut of his hips was like an open invitation.

Vivian looked him straight in the eye. “I’m not interested in being one of a long line of willing victims, Scott” she said.

He thought that victim was an unusual choice of word. “I’m not as indiscriminate as you seem to imply, Vivian,” he said softly.

“No? So what was all that? And besides, apart from me, when did you last have a lover?”

He frowned with memory, and the wry knowledge that, having admitted honesty, he could not now refuse to answer her question. “Months ago. I was seeing this… lady, but I haven’t been with her in months.” He met her eyes. He sure as hell wasn’t going to tell her that she was the reason why he stopped calling Olivia. “Hardly evidence of a man who’s engaged on a mission to seduce every woman in sight—no matter what my reputation. Satisfied, Vivian?”

It was an ironic and poor choice of word. Satisfied was the last word she would use t