The Prince's Resistant Lover by Elizabeth Lennox Read Free Book Online Page B

you.”
    Wyndi heard the words but had to play them over again in her mind, not sure that she’d heard him correctly. “A secure location,” she parroted, wondering what had happened to the warm, demanding lover of the previous night.
    He folded his newspaper carefully, laying it on the table beside him. “Yes. A location where we can talk undisturbed and where you can give me all the information on what you’ve been doing.”
    She blinked, not sure what he was talking about but definitely sure that she was scared now. “Tamar, what are you talking about?” she demanded, her hands forming fists so he couldn’t see her trembling. “Where are we going and why?”
    He regarded her for a long moment, considering the best way to get the information he needed. Finally, he waved to the seat across from him, indicating she should sit. When she just glared back at him, he suppressed the amusement at her stubbornness.
    “As I said, we’re heading to a secure location where you will explain all of your illegal activities, you will tell me who you sold the information to and what data you sold, and then, depending on how cooperative you have been, I will decide whether to turn you over to the authorities or not.”
    Wyndi swallowed painfully, feeling as if she might just throw up. She’d been caught! And not by the police or whatever authority regulates cyber-spying, but by a man whom she had trusted. She’d slept with this man, made love to him and drew him into her body. She’d begged him, pleaded with him to take her and he’d built up her need so high that she’d been his to command.
    “You bastard!” she gasped, sitting down only because her legs wouldn’t hold her any longer. “What you did…the things…” she stopped, feeling sick just thinking about the things they’d done together. Shaking her head, she looked down at her fingers, a painful, humiliated feeling washing over her whole body. “You used me.”
    Tamar couldn’t believe the anger that burst out of him. He could honestly say that he’d never been so furious in all his life. “I used you? That’s rich, my dear, since you have been sneaking into my companies and my government, stealing information. How much money did you make selling proprietary information to my competitors?” he demanded. “How many state secrets did you discover and sell to Surisia’s enemies? Are we vulnerable in some way?”
    Her mouth fell open as he spoke, stunned by his words and his accusations. “What are you talking about?” she asked, trying to make sense of this whole scene.
    “Your program, the one that you developed,” he spat out, pushing her laptop closer to her. “It was designed to break into company files and search for information.”
    He wasn’t asking, she understood. He was accusing. “You think I created that code so I could steal information and sell it? Sell it to whom?” she asked, still not sure what he was talking about.
    “Don’t lie to me!” he snapped. “And don’t you dare try to play dumb! The person who created this code is brilliant!”
    She crossed her arms over her chest belligerently, pushing her chin out because she was so scared and trying to hide it behind a façade of defiance. “I’m not stupid. Nor am I even trying to convince you that I am.”
    “Are you telling me you didn’t create this code?” he demanded, leaning forward, his eyes burning with his anger.
    “I created it,” she confirmed.
    His temper rose several notches. He felt like he was slowly burning up with the fury caused by her betrayal of his trust and the mounting evidence of how stupid she’d made him look. But with her admission, a small part of something inside of him unclenched. “Glad to know there’s a small part of you that can be honest,” he replied. “So next you’re going to create two lists. The first one will include all the information you obtained from your program and the next list will provide me with every single person