Chapter 47

“I would like to kiss you one last time, Evelyn.”

Roman watched the way her breath hitched and the fire that flared in her eyes before she took another step back from him. It was just for a moment before she started trembling again.

It gave him hope.

“That’s all I need from you. And then when my project is done, I’ll go back to London and you’ll do whatever makes you happy.”

“You can’t ask me for that,” Evelyn said as she looked around the car park.

It felt like she was going to run at any moment.

“I have lain awake so many nights thinking of how things went wrong,” he admitted, not daring to close the distance between them. “I know it was my fault. And I know you will never come back to me. I will let you go but I just want... I need to feel your lips on mine.”

“You’re blackmailing me,” Evelyn said. Her voice was trembling as she looked anywhere but at him. “You’re asking for something you know you can’t have just so you can keep things lik