Chapter 320

Because it was torture not to reach out and take Chloe in his arms, to kiss her, to touch her, as he so longed to do. He knew that he couldn’t do that if he intended to be with her again. He knew instinctively that she would use any physical coercion on his part now as a reason not to see him again.

"Of course," he replied. "Perhaps you would have lunch with me on your next day off?"

He was rewarded by Chloe’s startled look. "Lunch?" she repeated.

He gave a wry smile. "It is a meal, usually partaken of at some time between midday and three o’clock—"

"I know what lunch is, Gregorio," she said. "I just—I assumed you would be returning to Los Angeles some time during the next few days."

"Did you?" he mused, his intention having been to go to Paris this week rather than Los Angeles. That was before he met Chloe.

Before, he had decided that capturing her and taking her to his bed was the more urgent of the two.

But, no matter what happened or didn’t happen between the two of them in the ne