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A ghost of a smile touched his lips. “You seem antsy.”
“You don’t get to do that.”
“Do what?”
“Turn this around.”
“Turn what around?”
“Make this about me.”
“You’ve been miserable since Carrington.”
Just hearing Jake’s last name sent a jolt of sadness through me.
Carrington had swept through my life like a fucking tornado, leaving the kind of damage one would expect from a man whose nickname was De Sade—the same De Sade history had proven to be a sick bastard who’d mastered the art of pain a century ago.
It had started off as a joke but, strangely, had turned into reality.
Having retired from the NFL as a star quarterback, Carrington still had this uncanny ability to deal with pain—for himself as well as others.
A trait he was admired for at Chrysalis.
We’d become more.
So much more.
Right up until he’d gone back to his wife. Rylee had initially left him for another man, and then changed her mind—stealing Jake back and making that move permanent.
Over the last month, I’d picked up the pieces of that catastrophe.
I was done inviting in anymore carnage.
“You both agreed Carrington trying again with Rylee was a good idea,” Cole said, interrupting my thoughts.
How could I have stood in his way?
I rose out of my melancholy. “If this is your elaborate plan…” I stared off at Rue.
“I’m flattered,” he said. “But I introduced you to De Sade and…” He shrugged.
“You never suspected I’d like him that much?” I couldn’t keep the surprise from my tone.
After all, he was the great Cameron Cole, renowned psychiatrist known for playing puppet master.
“It’s natural to fall in and out of love.”
It was the falling out of part that I hated.
He nudged my arm. “She likes you.”
“Rue? I’ve only just met her.”
And I was already entranced with her deep blue eyes and flowing hair and those voluptuous curves. She was all woman and full of promise as a submissive, too. I wasn’t that much into danger that I’d give her any serious consideration.
“What’s her story?” he asked.
I didn’t want to get into it. “You better not be plotting.”
