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attracted to Lily, any more than she could deny her response to him earlier. He had been able to breathe in the perfume of her arousal as he held her in his arms and her pussy pressed against the hardness of his cock. To feel the heat between her thighs and the press of her engorged nipples against his chest.
    His mouth thinned as his cock gave an interested throb. A response he ignored. As he also chose to ignore her most recent attempt to annoy him. “Do I need to warn my men to expect any more nocturnal visitors?”
    “Is that your way of asking if I have a boyfriend?”
    “Do you?”
    “Didn’t Gabriel tell you that?”
    “I doubt Gabriel would know,” he drawled.
    She gave a humorless smile. “You’re right, he wouldn’t. And the answer is no. No more nocturnal visitors, and no boyfriend.”
    Jonas nodded. “What time do you usually leave your apartment?”
    “There’s a matinee performance tomorrow as well as an evening one, so about one, then back again at six thirty.”
    “Must be hell on your social life.”
    “I told you, I don’t have one.”
    “Tomorrow,” he reiterated abruptly.
    Once Jonas had gone, what little defiance Lily had left deflated like a punctured balloon. The letters and the roses had been and continued to be disturbing. Jonas’s presence in her life, while reassuring in one way, also made it impossible for her to continue denying how frightened she was of whoever had sent those letters and bloodied roses.
    But at least Jonas’s presence means I no longer feel quite so alone and defenseless.

    “Any progress?”
    Jonas raised dark brows. “It’s been less than twenty-four hours, Gabriel.” And this was the second visit the other man had made to his office during that time, Gabriel having marched straight into Jonas’s office, without an appointment and uninvited. He was lucky to have caught Jonas here at all; he was leaving for Lily’s apartment in a few minutes.
    “And?”
    “As you know, Lily and I met for the first time last night. Thanks for letting her know about me, by the way.” He scowled his displeasure. “I can’t tell you how thrilled she was, once she’d settled down, to learn who I am and what I was doing in her dressing room.”
    Gabriel grimaced. “I told you, my relationship with Lily is complicated.”
    “More like nonexistent.”
    “You try being guardian to a thirteen-year-old girl some time, and then tell me if she still likes you at the end of it.”
    “Good point,” Jonas conceded. He didn’t have any siblings of his own, but if Lily’s challenging attitude now was anything to go by… “I have some of my people investigating the letters.” He wasn’t ready to tell Gabriel about those six letters Lily had kept from him, or the envelopes they came in. It was more important that he build the trust between himself and Lily than Gabriel needed to know all the details. “Let me do my job, Gabriel,” he added firmly. “I’ll tell you if there’s anything I think you need to know.”
    The other man breathed deeply. “It’s hard for me to let someone else deal with this, when I just want to pulverize the bastard.”
    “I almost made the mistake of doing exactly that last night. Turned out the man I was about to pulverize was a friend of hers. Evan Butler,” he supplied as Gabriel looked at him questioningly. “He thinks you’re gorgeous, by the way. Totally impressed with the wide shoulders and sexy green eyes.”
    Gabriel’s scowl deepened. “I trust you told him he isn’t my type.”
    “Now why would I do that?”
    “Bastard,” Gabriel said without rancor.
    Jonas chuckled. “He’s sweet. If you like sweet, that is.”
    “I don’t,” Gabriel stated.
    “He has a boyfriend anyway.”
    Gabriel gave him a look that clearly said as if I care . “So what’s our next move?”
    “ My next move. Although I would appreciate any information you might have that I don’t.”
    “Lily isn’t being cooperative,” Gabriel guessed