―Let me go Max.‖ she said, ―Just leave me alone—please.‖
The look of pain that crossed her face made him let her go and she got out of the car.He told Oscar to wait until she was safe inside before driving away.Then he rolled up the divider and spent the drive back to his penthouse seething.He was angry at her, at Nikos, but most of all himself. He should have never taken her to bed in Greece.It left her openly vulnerable towards him. He didn‘t like the way their relationship changed dramatically after that. Part of him felt as though he‘d lost her because of it, and another made him feel selfish like she said because he should have reassured her immediately after that, not leaving her to wake up alone. Then again he‘d never been with someone so innocent so it escaped him to do such a thing.
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CHAPTER SIX
Lily went right to her room, thankful that she didn‘t have a roommate this semester. Her eyes were already red and puffy.
Was it possible for her heart to hurt so much?She sobbed out loud and made her way to the bathroom to wash her face. Never had she let her emotions get so out of control, but that man drove her crazy! His confession of having her watched near pushed her over the edge with everything else that had been going on in her life. Nikos was only being a friend and Max had—had what? She paused looking at her reflection in the mirror as something dawned on her.
Max acted jealous.
After a moment she shook her head even considering what Nikos had said. Max never got jealous. He had his choice of the cream of the crop and for him to settle for her was impossible.Yet she couldn‘t help wonder if he had made sure that she had no suitors. He and Luke were in on this. When her brother got back in town she was going to confront him about this whole thing.She was so mixed up she didn‘t know which way was up at the moment. Not only that, she still couldn‘t beat this flu bug. If it was a bug. Luke already suspected she wasn‘t well, but she‘d passed it off when he‘d asked her about it.
What was she going to tell him?That she had a broken heart?
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After he started thinking about it, he recalled the way she looked when he returned from Tokyo and she from Athens. The life seemed to go out of her, but he attributed that to Jet lag the first couple of days, but he was gone again after that.Now he started to wonder if it was something else.Max seemed more subdued lately and if he had any suspicions he would think that something happened between them when they had gone together, but Max had promised him and his word was virtually unbreakable.
Yet, he still couldn‘t help but wonder, and first thing on Monday he would ask him.First, he was getting his sister a Doctor‘s appointment.
Monday was crazy and it took Luke half a day to finally get Max alone. He didn‘t waste any time. After Nancy left and shut the door behind them he turned to his friend, ―What happened between you and Lily in Athens?‖
Max kept his expression carefully guarded, ―What did she tell you?‖
Luke narrowed his gaze knowing his suspicions were correct, ―Nothing.‖
―Then why do you ask?‖
―She won‘t eat, she‘s lost weight and whenever I bring her home for
