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right away, “I don’t want to go with you.”
    “Too late. You’re locked in here with me.”
    Bobby gaped at the way he just said the words so implacably. “Didn’t you hear what I just said? I don’t want to go with you. I don’t even want to spend a moment with you—”
    “But even while not wanting all that, you somehow want to kiss me?”
    She turned red, but managed to throw back, “What can I say? I’m as indiscriminate as you are when it comes to kissing.”
    Indiscriminate?  
    “Explain what you mean by being indiscriminate.”
    “Oh, poor boy. You don’t have many big words in your vocabulary, is that it?”
    “I’m not in the mood for games, Bobby. Tell me what you meant!” He clenched and unclenched his fists, doing his best to fight the urge to shake the answers out of her. Dio. If she meant what he thought she meant, then blood would be shed.
    It did not matter that he and Bobby did not owe each other anything. It did not matter that he had acted like a hard-partying bachelor during the past two weeks. All he knew was he did not intend to share Bobby with anyone else. Bobby was his.
    She couldn’t believe how he was acting. Did he really think she would let him get away with acting like he was her owner after everything he had been doing in his homeland? Did he actually think what happened in Athens stayed in freaking Athens?
    Her teeth gnashed together as memories of the past two weeks assaulted her. Oh, if only she could smack him. He was such a jerk. He had kissed her twice, seen her naked, and sucked on her – on her – on that, and then he disappeared without so much as a warning or even a darn text. If not for the newspapers, she wouldn’t even have known where he was!
    “You’re crazy. You’re absolutely crazy, and you know why I think that?” She didn’t wait for him to answer, so intent on getting all her pent-up emotions off her chest. “You’re crazy to think that after I saw you partying with a different girl each night, you really think I’m going to let you back into my life again?”
    She shook her head furiously. “Maybe you’re used to dating girls who swallow everything you have to say. Maybe you think I’m so ugly and fat that I’d be pathetically grateful for your attention. But I’m not. I’m not that kind of girl. I may be stupidly attracted to you and I can’t think whenever you’re kissing me, but it doesn’t mean a thing. I think you’re shit !”
    He knew she hadn’t said anything that did not deserve to be said, but Leandro was not used to such a dressing down and his own temper rose in his defense. “Be careful with your words,” he snapped.
    Bobby glared at him. “Shit, shit, shit!”
    His jaw hardened. “You’re so damn childish. I’m trying to apologize—”
    “And you think an apology is going to cut it?”
    “It should when I tell you that I did it to save my father’s career!”
    His roar made her blink, and his words, when they eventually sank in, made Bobby pale.
    Seeing her confusion, he said tightly, “My father has been in the hospital for some weeks now, and when Aunt Samantha knocked on the door that night, it was because I had a call from my mother telling me that I had to go back home. My father had another heart attack, a lot worse this time, and for a while we did not know if he would survive or not.”
    She said shakily, “I’m sorry.”
    “He was conscious enough at the start to tell us that he did not want anyone outside the family to know of his condition. We needed a distraction, so that was when I decided to be the decoy.”
    “That explains all those photographs of you every night.” She had indeed wondered why there were a lot more photos than usual in the past two weeks, and all of them had been startlingly clear, like he had been practically photographed up close.
    He nodded.
    She was quiet for some time before asking, “Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t you send word or let me know in some