Chapter 360

"Did your father put you up to it, Cassia?" See his ticket out of debt? Or did you just do it for the hell of it, to see if you could turn my head yourself? I told you that day that I don't date seventeen-year-olds. His mouth twisted mockingly. "But if you’d come to me as you are now..."

He flicked an openly appraising look up and down her body. It should have disgusted her. It should have made her angry. But it didn’t. It made her feel hot and bothered and confused and out of her depth.

But he wasn’t finished. ‘To tell the truth, seven years on I’m not much interested in why…’ He shook his head. ‘You changed, Cassia. The girl I knew would never have tried to seduce me and get someone to photograph the evidence.’

Her insides stung with acute hurt, and the humiliation rose up again so sharply that she felt sick. to think he would have thought that of her.

Cassia bit her lip hard and could feel blood. As if his rejection hadn't been painful enough, he had to reiterate how unwelcome her