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going to forgive me when I tell her everything.”
    Knox lowered his eyes to the floor. “You’d be surprised what people can get over.”
    It was time to make an exit before he started to sound like a greeting card. As he brushed past her, he stopped dead in his tracks as her fingers reached out and curled around his.
    “Stay with me tonight.” Her voice was quiet, and his heart raced.
    “You don’t want that.” But god, he did.
    “How do you know what I want?”
    “You want to talk about your feelings over a cup of coffee,” he said, staring down at her eyes, “but I’m not that guy.” Knox bit his tongue. He needed to be crude; it was the only way to smother any idea she held that he was a decent man. Taking a woman whenever she offered was something of a religion to him, but it didn’t seem appropriate to do this with her, not just because she was a friend to Silver, but he didn’t see her like the other women. “Unless you want to be with someone who will make you feel like a cheap whore, then let go of my hand.”
    She let go, and hooked her fingers in his jeans. He sucked in a sharp breath, feeling the cold tips against his warm stomach. It triggered a reaction—a need to warm her—and he threaded his fingers through the soft waves of her damp hair. It was silky, just like he imagined.
    She rolled up the end of his shirt, spreading slow kisses across the flat of his stomach.
    Possession crashed through him like a tsunami. He lifted her by the arms and her body rubbed against his, every curvy inch of it.
    “You don’t make me feel cheap,” she said in a breath touching his neck. “I want to know who you are, and I’m asking you to stay with me tonight,” she said, rising to her tiptoes to meet his lips.
    The kiss, her lips, and the firm way that she gripped his arms were more than he could process. He didn’t lean in or offer. She took what she wanted. Knox had always been the aggressor—the pursuer—and he wasn’t prepared for a woman to take charge of him this way.
    He liked it.
    That first feathery brush made his knees lock up. She was insatiable. Her tongue found his and she gripped the back of his neck, pulling him to her even more. Rain and flowers filled his senses, and she deepened the kiss, coaxing him to respond with more passion than he was giving her. She tasted like butterscotch, and their tongues twirled.
    “This isn’t right,” he said, breaking away. She needed someone—anyone—and Knox was nothing more than a convenience of proximity. He refused to be her regret.
    “It doesn’t have to mean anything,” she said.
    Those words slammed into him like a brick wall, and it scared the shit out of him. Following her home was a mistake, so Knox moved away and walked out the door.

Chapter 5
     
    “What are you and Knox up to?” I asked.
    Adam rapped his fingers on the dining table with confidentiality etched all over his face.
    “I can’t say.”
    “The same reason you can’t say why he was at my apartment that night?”
    Adam rubbed his eyelids with the tips of his fingers and yawned. God, the man was impossible.
    A dim candle on the wall sconce flickered out, so I replaced it with a fresh one and lit the wick. I never won the battle for electricity, but I did manage to convince Justus to install it in the bathroom so I could see in the shower.
    “Knox isn’t trying to become a Mage, is he?”
    A sharp laugh flew out of his mouth and his eyes crinkled. “Hell no. Why would you even think that? Knox would never contemplate being anything but human.”
    “I trust I’ll find out soon enough, Captain Confidential.”
    It was the first time that we had a chance to talk privately, and I struggled with bringing up the topic. “I need to ask you something, and I want you to be honest with me. Do you resent me for the choice you made that night? I knew there was a risk you could die, and that killed me, Adam. But I had no idea that Novis was a Creator and would give you a