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.Now with the certain knowledge that he could handle her intense emotions and perhaps even help control them.She shook her head and went to step back, away from him, away from the danger she instinctively knew she was in.His hold on her tightened, keeping her still.“I understand you, Judith.The way you think and feel.I can handle every emotion you have and I can lessen the impact on anyone around us.I can shield others from the intensity.Who else can do that? You need me every bit as much as I need you.You need this man to suffer, I’m your man.You need to disappear and start over; we can do that as well.I’ve got you, moi padshii angel.Whatever happens, I’ve got you.”Russian this time.My fallen angel.She had fallen.Judith felt as if the very devil was standing in front of her, offering her the world, and the price was her soul.He wasn’t handsome in the true sense of the word, not with all of his scars, but he was all male, sensual and compelling.He would never be a man who would allow her to walk all over him, nor could she manipulate him.There was far more to Thomas Vincent than she’d first thought.“I don’t know you at all.” Her voice came out a shaky whisper.“You know enough.”“You should be running from this house.It’s called self-preservation , Thomas.I’m already damned.I’ve accepted that.”“That’s bullshit, Judith.Revenge is a natural emotion when someone has gone through the trauma you have.You haven’t come face-to-face with the man who had your brother killed yet.You haven’t had the tool in your hands to do the things you want to do to him.There is no judgment or damnation for thinking about making someone suffer and die.That comes after you carry out your actual revenge.You may not go through with it when the time comes.”She didn’t flinch.“I’ll go through with it.” There was steel in her tone this time.She wasn’t going to back down, not even to make him want her.She wouldn’t lie to him, or drag him down with her.She’d lived in her own hell too long to allow anyone else to join her.The isolation and lie of her life was difficult enough without the weight of another terrible sin, dragging someone else down into the abyss with her.“Until that time, Judith, don’t be so hard on yourself.Everyone, at sometime in their life, thinks of revenge.I certainly have done so.”Looking into those cool, aquamarine eyes, she believed him.She found herself shivering.Thomas Vincent wasn’t just the innocent businessman she thought him.Whatever he’d done during his time in the service hadn’t been easy and he had a hard core of strength that went with his physical appearance.She shook her head, confused.She wanted this man with everything in her.She had confessed to the counselor and to her sisters that she was the cause of her brother’s vicious murder.She had not admitted her part in the death of the innocent policeman.She knew her sisters felt responsible for the violent deaths in their families, but the fact was, unlike the rest of them, she was responsible.Not one other person knew until Thomas.He hadn’t turned away from her and he hadn’t been harmed when, once again, she’d lost control of her emotions.There was such amazing freedom in the knowledge that she could talk to him without hiding part of herself.She didn’t have to lie to him.He knew the worst of her and he still stood there looking at her with that very dangerous and compelling hunger.She was going to lose herself in this man.If she let him any closer, if she let him another inch into her life, he would become her world.There was no one else for her and she had stepped into the age-old lure of sexual attraction.She was sinking so fast now he had faced the worst in her and had stayed, she was afraid there was no way to save either of them.He might think he could really make a man suffer before he killed him, but in truth, whatever he’d done in service to his country had been a different situation altogether.She could never ask such a terrible thing of him and she doubted, if it came right down to it, that he would be able to do such a thing.It went against nature.Stefan watched Judith carefully.He was adept at reading body language.He’d learned in a hard school and knew every nuance of the human expression.She was trying to find a way to gracefully retreat.She accepted that he thought he might understand her need for revenge, but he would never follow through.Interrogation techniques often were called torture by some.Certainly Judith would think so.That too, had been learned in a hard school.He knew all about interrogation and the consequences of not getting information required.She wasn’t expecting anything from him that he hadn’t done throughout his lifetime, although, he was certain she would never actually go through with it.She might be able to kill Jean-Claude quick and clean, and only then, he was certain, if she wasn’t thinking clearly.But Judith was incapable of torture.She might dream of it, even plan it, but she was totally without the killer instinct.“You aren’t going to run away from me, Judith,” he said, meaning it.He’d emerged partially from the shadows and something incredible was in his sites.“I know you’re scared, angel, but we can do this.Give it a little time.Show me around your house.Eat the lunch I fixed for us.We’ll pick this up at another time.”His thumb brushed over her pulse, felt it jump and then began to beat more steadily.She blinked up at him before some of the tension drained out of her.Her tongue touched her lower lip, drawing his complete attention.“You called me ‘my fallen angel’ in three different languages.”He flashed a small grin.“That’s called showing off.”Which was true, but even more, he wanted to call her an endearment in his own language and it was better to throw her off by using several languages instead of just Russian.He found he detested lying to her.Even misleading seemed wrong.She’d put everything on the line for him, yet he couldn’t reciprocate.If he admitted that he was Lev’s brother, it would put her in a terrible position.One thing he knew for certain about Judith, she was extremely loyal and she would deny knowing Lev and protect him with every breath in her body, something his brother would count on [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Now with the certain knowledge that he could handle her intense emotions and perhaps even help control them.She shook her head and went to step back, away from him, away from the danger she instinctively knew she was in.His hold on her tightened, keeping her still.“I understand you, Judith.The way you think and feel.I can handle every emotion you have and I can lessen the impact on anyone around us.I can shield others from the intensity.Who else can do that? You need me every bit as much as I need you.You need this man to suffer, I’m your man.You need to disappear and start over; we can do that as well.I’ve got you, moi padshii angel.Whatever happens, I’ve got you.”Russian this time.My fallen angel.She had fallen.Judith felt as if the very devil was standing in front of her, offering her the world, and the price was her soul.He wasn’t handsome in the true sense of the word, not with all of his scars, but he was all male, sensual and compelling.He would never be a man who would allow her to walk all over him, nor could she manipulate him.There was far more to Thomas Vincent than she’d first thought.“I don’t know you at all.” Her voice came out a shaky whisper.“You know enough.”“You should be running from this house.It’s called self-preservation , Thomas.I’m already damned.I’ve accepted that.”“That’s bullshit, Judith.Revenge is a natural emotion when someone has gone through the trauma you have.You haven’t come face-to-face with the man who had your brother killed yet.You haven’t had the tool in your hands to do the things you want to do to him.There is no judgment or damnation for thinking about making someone suffer and die.That comes after you carry out your actual revenge.You may not go through with it when the time comes.”She didn’t flinch.“I’ll go through with it.” There was steel in her tone this time.She wasn’t going to back down, not even to make him want her.She wouldn’t lie to him, or drag him down with her.She’d lived in her own hell too long to allow anyone else to join her.The isolation and lie of her life was difficult enough without the weight of another terrible sin, dragging someone else down into the abyss with her.“Until that time, Judith, don’t be so hard on yourself.Everyone, at sometime in their life, thinks of revenge.I certainly have done so.”Looking into those cool, aquamarine eyes, she believed him.She found herself shivering.Thomas Vincent wasn’t just the innocent businessman she thought him.Whatever he’d done during his time in the service hadn’t been easy and he had a hard core of strength that went with his physical appearance.She shook her head, confused.She wanted this man with everything in her.She had confessed to the counselor and to her sisters that she was the cause of her brother’s vicious murder.She had not admitted her part in the death of the innocent policeman.She knew her sisters felt responsible for the violent deaths in their families, but the fact was, unlike the rest of them, she was responsible.Not one other person knew until Thomas.He hadn’t turned away from her and he hadn’t been harmed when, once again, she’d lost control of her emotions.There was such amazing freedom in the knowledge that she could talk to him without hiding part of herself.She didn’t have to lie to him.He knew the worst of her and he still stood there looking at her with that very dangerous and compelling hunger.She was going to lose herself in this man.If she let him any closer, if she let him another inch into her life, he would become her world.There was no one else for her and she had stepped into the age-old lure of sexual attraction.She was sinking so fast now he had faced the worst in her and had stayed, she was afraid there was no way to save either of them.He might think he could really make a man suffer before he killed him, but in truth, whatever he’d done in service to his country had been a different situation altogether.She could never ask such a terrible thing of him and she doubted, if it came right down to it, that he would be able to do such a thing.It went against nature.Stefan watched Judith carefully.He was adept at reading body language.He’d learned in a hard school and knew every nuance of the human expression.She was trying to find a way to gracefully retreat.She accepted that he thought he might understand her need for revenge, but he would never follow through.Interrogation techniques often were called torture by some.Certainly Judith would think so.That too, had been learned in a hard school.He knew all about interrogation and the consequences of not getting information required.She wasn’t expecting anything from him that he hadn’t done throughout his lifetime, although, he was certain she would never actually go through with it.She might be able to kill Jean-Claude quick and clean, and only then, he was certain, if she wasn’t thinking clearly.But Judith was incapable of torture.She might dream of it, even plan it, but she was totally without the killer instinct.“You aren’t going to run away from me, Judith,” he said, meaning it.He’d emerged partially from the shadows and something incredible was in his sites.“I know you’re scared, angel, but we can do this.Give it a little time.Show me around your house.Eat the lunch I fixed for us.We’ll pick this up at another time.”His thumb brushed over her pulse, felt it jump and then began to beat more steadily.She blinked up at him before some of the tension drained out of her.Her tongue touched her lower lip, drawing his complete attention.“You called me ‘my fallen angel’ in three different languages.”He flashed a small grin.“That’s called showing off.”Which was true, but even more, he wanted to call her an endearment in his own language and it was better to throw her off by using several languages instead of just Russian.He found he detested lying to her.Even misleading seemed wrong.She’d put everything on the line for him, yet he couldn’t reciprocate.If he admitted that he was Lev’s brother, it would put her in a terrible position.One thing he knew for certain about Judith, she was extremely loyal and she would deny knowing Lev and protect him with every breath in her body, something his brother would count on [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
