Page 56 of In Love with a Ruthless Man

But the words only made her more anxious, and she stumbled to a halt.

The prince stopped as well, emerald green eyes looking down at her curiously. “Fawn?”

She took a deep breath...before starting to babble. “It’s a joke, right? I mean, you can’t possibly want me to be your loverbecause that would make you masochistic, since you know I love Grant, while I don’t love you—-”

The prince’s teeth began to gnash.

“And there are so many other girls who’d be better, who wouldn’t turn you down like I did, several times—-”

“Fawn?” The prince interrupted her in a soft, silky voice.

She shut up. A moment later, she realizedexactlywhat she had said, and she paled.

“Are you finished?” the prince asked with a gentle smile.

“Y-yes?”

“Then it’s your turn to listen.” The prince’s smile disappeared. “First of all, the only reason you were able to resist me was because I was holding myself back the entire time.” When she opened her mouth to speak, he said pleasantly, “And if you say one word otherwise, I’ll prove it to you here, and to hell with whoever sees us.”

Fawn didn’t even hesitate. “I seriously wasn’t thinking about denying the truth, I mean, seriously, you’re, like,the bomb.”

The prince remained unsmiling.

She snapped her mouth shut.Right. Lesson learned. The prince didn’t like her sense of humor.

“Let’s start walking again,” the prince said after a moment. “Hopefully, a bit of exercise can cure your tactlessness.”

She fell into step beside him, mumbling, “Sorry.”

“No need to apologize.”

“I didn’t mean to make you sound completely unattractive to me.”

“And your tactlessness strikes again.”

Fawn cringed. “Sorry.”

“No need to apologize,” he dismissed casually. “You’ll do it again anyway.”

“I’m not.” Her lips pursed in determination.

I’m going to give her five minutes,the prince thought, before she puts her foot in her mouth again.

He was wrong.

Barely a minute had passed when Fawn blurted out, “How did you find me?”

The prince hesitated for a moment, but because he didn’t want to lie, he said finally, “I used the university’s CCTV system.”

She gasped. “You werestalkingme?”

He glared at her. “I was not.”And he wasn’t, never mind if that was exactly what his friend Nathan thought as well.“I was only concerned,” he stressed. “Okay?”

“Okay.” But she slanted him a dubious glance as she spoke.

“Besides, it doesn’t matter how I found you,” he said irritably. “The important thing was that I was there.”

There was a moment of silence before Fawn said reluctantly, “That’s true. I did need you to be there.”

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