But she wanted to!
Oh, how she wanted to!
‘Would you like something to drink?’ Sin offered politely when they were once more on the terrace overlooking parkland.
Luccy tapped her foot impatiently against one of the concrete slabs. ‘What I would like, as soon as you have said what it is you want to say, is to be on my flight back to England!’
Sin looked at her, seeing her face pale beneath those dark sunglasses. ‘Why did you leave without saying goodbye?’
A little colour entered her cheeks. ‘I left Wallace a note.’
‘So he told me.’ A nerve pulsed in Sin’s tightly clenched jaw as he recalled that Luccy had felt the need to say goodbye to Wallace but not to him.
She gave a dismissive shrug. ‘After last night there didn’t seem to be anything left for the two of us to say to each other.’
Sin drew in a sharp breath. ‘Luccy, do you have any idea why I decided I had to let you go, after all?’
She looked at him uncertainly. ‘Because you didn’t want to spend the next few decades married to a woman who hates you was, I believe, the reason you gave me?’#p#分页标题#e#
Sin frowned. ‘Do you hate me, Luccy?’
‘You said I did.’
‘I’m more interested in what you have to say than anything I may or may not have said!’ he rasped.
Luccy eyed him, still not sure what he wanted from her. Or how much more of this she could take…
She had left in the way she had in order to avoid another scene like this, had no defences left, against her love for him, or the way she was still so physically aware of him as he stood there so tall and handsome in his black polo shirt and faded blue jeans.
‘What do you want from me, Sin?’ She gave a pained frown, her hands tightly clasped together in front of her.
‘I want—’He broke off, giving a frustrated shake of his head. ‘What happened between the two of us two months ago, Luccy?’
She drew in a ragged breath. ‘I thought you were the one with all the answers on that subject.’
She had never done anything as reckless in her life before as going off with someone as she had done with Sin that night. She’d never do anything like it again, either!
Her eyes widened as Sin walked slowly, determinedly, towards her, not sure she could keep her fragile barriers in place if he came too close to her.
And then he was close to her, very close, so close that Luccy could no longer breathe…
‘I don’t have the answer to that one.’ He looked down at her. ‘You knocked me off my feet that night, do you know that?’
‘No…’ she breathed, her gaze caught and held by his.
‘Totally.’ Sin nodded. ‘And then when I came out of the shower and found you gone…’ He gave another shake of his head. ‘It was almost as if I had imagined you.’
Luccy grimaced. ‘I have nightmares like that too sometimes.’ Sin smiled slightly. ‘You were no nightmare, Luccy. The nightmare only began after I spoke to Paul Bridger,’ he grated, his mouth tightening at the memory.
‘When you chose to believe Paul’s version of what had happened that night instead of mine, you mean!’ Luccy reminded him sharply.
Sin closed his eyes briefly before opening them again. ‘He lied, didn’t he, Luccy? Every word he said was a damned lie!’
‘Yes, it was a lie,’ she confirmed slowly. ‘But how do you know that? Have you spoken to him again?’
Sin’s hands clenched at his sides as he saw the truth—belatedly—shining in her candid blue eyes. ‘I was angry and confused that night; I really couldn’t understand why you left when we had shared something so beautiful.’ He drew in a ragged breath. ‘Luccy, I’ve been allowing something that happened in my past, along with Bridger’s lies, to influence my reasoning,’ he admitted. ‘And, despite your denials, until yesterday I’ve continued to allow the past to influence me.’
‘Yesterday? What happened yesterday? Did you speak to Paul Bridger then?’
‘I haven’t spoken to anyone,’ he said. ‘I have several things I would like to say to him! But, no, Luccy, I didn’t need to speak to anyone yesterday to know that you’ve been telling me the truth all along.’
‘So you no longer believe that I coldly, calculatedly made love with you?’
He grimaced. ‘I know you didn’t.’
Luccy looked dazed. ‘I’ve never behaved like that before, Sin. Never. It was completely out of character for me.’ She shook her head. ‘I didn’t even understand it myself until I realised—’ She broke off abruptly.