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she watched him visibly calm himself. “Explain.”
    “The woman, Angelique, she’s kind of my friend and she warned me that being with you is dangerous.”
    That sadness came into his eyes once again and her heart ached for him. “ Da . Very, very dangerous. That is why I only have kept women.”
    “What do you mean?”
    Shaking his head, he looked out to the lake and his chest rose beneath her cheek before he blew out a harsh breath. “It is best for you not to know. Would be risk otherwise. Do you understand?”
    “I think I do.” Actually, she understood rather well because of her upbringing, but she wasn’t going to share that with him. Club business was club business…just like mafia business was probably mafia business. “Don’t worry. I won’t ask you to tell me anything that might make me a target.”
    He frowned down at her. “How do you know?”
    “Know what?”
    “That you would be target.”
    She shrugged. “Just that if someone within your family thought you’d told me family secrets that would put me in danger, right? Not hard to logic that out.”
    “ Da , yes.” His dark brows came down and he looked at her in such an intense manner that she squirmed on his lap.
    “Did I say something wrong?”
    “No. No you say right things, which makes it hard to believe. Who are you, Rya DeLuca?”
    “Just a girl from New York. Nothing special.”
    His gaze thawed and he smiled at her. “You are wrong. You are very special.”
    She wasn’t usually one to blush, but his compliment warmed her from the inside out. “Thank you.”
    “Now, back to proposal. I would like to be your Master for the time we have together. But you will need to know I cannot show you open affection—favor—in public. It cannot be known that I care for you.”
    Elation filled her that this mysterious man said he cared for her, but then the rest of what he’d said filtered through her happy glow. “Are there people here who would hurt you?”
    He hesitated, then nodded. “Yes.”
    “Then we should go somewhere else.”
    Once again his dark brows drew down. “It would be out of character for me.”
    “Why?”
    “Because I rarely leave my brother’s side.”
    “You have brothers here?”
    “Right now he is in Boston, but he will be back at the lodge in two days.”
    “Okay, well then let’s get out of here for two days.”
    He chuckled. “You trust me enough to leave with me, even knowing I am Bratva?”
    “You might as well learn this now, Dimitri, I live my life to the fullest. I have a job that demands all of my attention so I rarely get to take vacations, but when I do, I try to experience everything I can. I’ve gone with my instincts my whole life, and so far, they’ve done a pretty good job at keeping me alive and happy. Right now, my instincts are telling me that I need to spend some time with you.”
    “Why?”
    “Because…because life is so very fragile.” Dark memories filled her and she shivered as phantom cold iced her skin.
    “You are chilled.” He leaned forward enough to hold her with one arm, then the other as he took his jacket off and settled it around her shoulders.
    The cloth was still warm from his body, and she took in a deep breath of his smell still lingering on the material. It was such a nice gesture she didn’t want to tell him that she wasn’t really cold, that the shiver came from a memory rather than reality. Talking about her past was a total mood killer, and she didn’t want to answer the questions he would ask right now.
    “Thanks.”
    He began to stroke her cheek with his thumb, the touch at once arousing and comforting. “If you could go anywhere, do anything, what would it be?”
    “Hmmm…well, I’ve put a pretty good dent in my bucket list, but if I could go anywhere and do anything right now I’d have to say I would like to go motorcycle riding along the Grand Canyon. I’ve heard it’s stunning and my grandfather’s people were from that area.”
    “That