Page 33 of In Love with a Ruthless Man

—-and she was dead.

So dead.

When he reached her, his tall, powerful frame filling her vision, she blurted out accusingly, “You promised you w-wouldn’t seduce me.”

A laugh escaped the prince. “I’m not.”

She could see that he wasn’t lying, and she almost cringed. Oh my God, if this wasn’t him seducing her, then how much better – no, worse - would it be when he did?

Theo.The way she was staring made the prince grit his teeth at the urge to haul her back into his arms so she would know exactly how it was when he really put his mind into seducing her.

That was what he wanted to do, what his body was dying to do.

But he couldn’t.

Because he had promised, and that damn diamond winking from her left hand was an undeniable reminder of how breaking his word would also end up breaking her.

“I better go,” she said finally and almost winced right after the breathless note in her voice. When the prince only nodded, it was then she realized in shock that a part of her had expected – and wanted – him to stop her from leaving.

Her stomach curled at the realization, and Fawn hastily turned away to race down the stairs, feeling all the while she was trying to fool herself into thinking that she was running away from her problems.

The prince watched her go with a tight jaw.

How the mighty have fallen, he thought with self-disgust.

She was only supposed to be a novelty, a challenge, because of the way she found Grant Bennett so damn attractive, the same way she had seemed to be so damn oblivious to him.

Then, he hadn’t given a damn about ruining her relationship with Grant, didn’t give a damn that betraying her fiancé could destroy her for good.

But now.

He did.

And it effectively kept his hands tied.

He could never make a move on her until she broke things off on her own with Grant Bennett.

TIME PASSED, AND ANunspoken agreement came to be between the prince and his fawn. He no longer spoke to her, and she no longer looked at him. But even so, there were things that they could not deny.

Things that made him seek cold showers every night, and things that made her toss and turn in her bed—-

Things that would make him pleasure himself when the ache was impossible to ignore, and it was a brown-eyed fawn that he would imagine in his mind, riding him, her long, silky blonde hair streaming down her slender back.

And lastly, things that would make her cling even more desperately to Grant, but her silent cry for attention was ignored as the man she had first loved became increasingly distant.

I love you.

I miss you.

Are you still mad with me?

Fawn had already lost count of the number of messages she had sent him, the number of calls that had remained unanswered. But even so, Fawn didn’t allow herself to lose hope.

Things would be okay again.

This might just be karma at work, might just be the fates punishing her for being attracted to another man.

But surely one day she would be forgiven?

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