Mistress of the Underground. Lisa Childs

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he been able to do that when they’d been married?

      Embarrassed and frustrated at her weakness, she glanced away from him. Her gaze landed on the door at the end of the hall.

      “You’ve done it again,” she said.

      “What?”

      “Avoided answering my question.” Maybe the divorce had been more his fault than hers. “Why did you come back down here, Ben?”

      Anger replaced the flare of desire in his eyes. “Sebastian wanted me to see that opening-night gift you got.”

      Damn him. And damn Ben for coming. “And here I thought you’d developed such a drinking problem that you can’t get enough.”

      “I can’t seem to get enough of something, but it isn’t alcohol,” he admitted, his fingers stroking over her skin before he released her wrist. But he took the bottle, turning his attention to the label. “The hard stuff, huh?”

      “If you’re going to bean someone over the head, you better use the hard stuff.” She stepped away from him, just resisting the urge to rub her wrist where his touch still burned her skin.

      “You didn’t think I was a desperate drunk,” he scoffed at her claim, “you thought I was whoever left those flowers in your office.”

      “And the stake,” she reminded him as she walked over to her desk where the hideous arrangement remained, despite Sebastian’s offer to get rid of it. Heck, he’d done more than offer; he’d insisted. She was surprised he’d listened to her when she’d explained that she wanted to hang on to it. “You know…all those years as a lawyer and the first time I’m called a vampire is after I’m no longer practicing law.”

      “You’ll always be a lawyer, Paige,” Ben insisted. “It’s being a bar owner that you should probably rethink.”

      “Why are you so against my owning this place?” she asked, remembering that earlier he had seemed to have a problem with it.

      His lips curved into that half grin again. “And see, more questions. You’re a lawyer through and through, Paige. I don’t understand why you would give that up now…”

      “When I hadn’t before when you wanted me to?” Regret and resentment overwhelmed her. She couldn’t deal with him…or the flowers…not without losing it.

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