Chapter 73

Oh, I don't know, he silently countered, staring grimly down at his can. It is a lack of nerve that made me ask the question. I am in dire straits here or the shrewd gambler in me would not be putting my last card on the table first.

“You can't even bring yourself to ask me that to my face,” she added scathingly.

The jeer spun him round to face her. She was sitting there glaring an evil spell at him like the beautiful Hazel-eyed witch he always saw, and on a grunt of rueful surrender he threw himself in at the deep end.

“Somehow, in my pursuit to end Sebastian’s engagement to lily, I fell in love with you. I fell in love with you that night we went to dinner to make him jealous. I took one look at you, and realised that I didn't want you to be with him, but with me,” he informed her. “Is that in your face enough for you?”

He could see that it most definitely was not. She had turned white, very white, and the eyes had gone grey, permeating the