Page 32 of In Love with a Cruel Billionaire

He looked down at Mairi, whose eyes had drifted shut, her face peaceful as she slowly slipped into an exhausted slumber. He touched her lips and she sighed. “I love you,” Mairi mumbled without opening her eyes.

Damen snatched his fingers away, the tender light in his eyes dying at her words.

Even in her sleep, she still lied.

Love did not exist, and the sooner he could make her realize that she would never fool him into believing it, the better it would be for both of them.

Chapter 10

To catch a Greek billionaire, you must be prepared to fight for him.

He said: With other women you mean?

She said: No, with their mothers.

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MAIRI WOKE IN DAMEN’Sarms, her body cushioned against his naked chest while they were both snuggled under the covers. When their eyes met, she opened her mouth to speak, but he beat her to it.

“Hi.”

She choked on her laughter. “Hi.”

He answered with a devastating smile but didn’t say anything else, content to simply gaze at her as he stroked her hair and caressed her cheek, his fingers occasionally drifting down to draw lazy shapes on the upper swell of her breasts.

She said slowly, “I love you, you know.”

He nodded. “I know.”

Mairi tried not to roll her eyes. Sometimes, he really was too much like the Greek billionaires she read about, the way he kept himself in a state of denial about his feelings for her. She was about to ask him if someone had hurt him in the past, but something interrupted her.

Damen’s fingers stilled.

And then—-

There it was again.

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