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    “Jason, wait!” But he was gone.
    I looked at Luke, hating the sight of him.
    “Why are you even here? I don’t want to date
you anymore. Please leave me alone.” I turned on my heels to storm after Jason
but Luke grabbed my hand, pulling me back. “Let go of me!”
    But Luke didn’t let go. I struggled against
him as he pushed me against the wall. His overly sweet cologne and unappealing
breath stung my nostrils.
    “You’re just as guilty as I am,” Luke said.
    “How do you figure that?” I asked through
clenched teeth. My blood was boiling and I feared steam would start coming off
the top of my head.
    “You were looking at me with those love eyes,
luring me in. You want to get back together just as much as I do. Come on,
baby.” He leaned in to kiss me.
    “Stop!” Without thinking twice about it, I spat in his face and kneed him
between the legs. He shrunk in pain, cupping his manhood.
    “You bitch ! Why did you do that?” He
coughed and his eyes were watering, but I didn’t care. My thoughts were on
Jason and what he must have thought of me. I moved, but Luke reached out and
grabbed my shirt. “Sophia, I love you!” His voice was high and strained as he
continued holding himself in pain. I pulled away as I gave him the most
dangerous glare I could muster. I shook my head.
    “You don’t love me. You saw me in the papers,
canoodling with a billionaire, and you thought something slipped through your
hands, and now you’re trying to get it back. Well let me tell you something,
this did slip through your hands and you can’t do anything about it. Now
I know you for who you really are. You only want me because Jason wants me.”
    “I’m not sure he does anymore.” A pained, ugly
smile crossed Luke’s face.
    Jason. My stomach sunk
again. Taking my anger out on Luke, I pointed a finger in his face.
    “How dare you come here and ruin my
relationship.”
    “It couldn’t have been that strong if one kiss
broke it apart.”
    I resisted the urge to punch that
self-absorbed smile right off his face. The last thing I needed right now was a
broken hand and a criminal record.
    “You’d be surprised by how strong our
relationship is. I’m convinced now that true love is something you’ll never get
to experience.”
    I turned to leave but he called out my name. I
clenched my jaw. My heart beat wildly in my chest.
    Now I was really mad.
    I turned back to him.
    “If you follow me, if you pursue me, if you EVER try to complicate my life again, I will destroy you.”
    “You and what
army?” He snickered.
    “You know who my fiancé is,” I warned. “He can
mess you up.”
    “ If he’s
still your fiancé.”
    Clenching my teeth, I stared at Luke dead in
his eyes, envisioning him with no teeth and showing him that I was fucking
pissed. Without a word, I turned and left him behind, hoping against all hope
that Jason Powers was still my fiancé.
    ***
    As I drove back to our penthouse suite, tears
crawled down my face. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to go back in time, back to when
I was trying on wedding dresses with Ellie! I wanted things to be right again,
like they were this morning.
    Why did Luke have to come into the picture?
    All I had to do was go and explain to Jason what happened. Luke was an old flame who showed up out of
nowhere and kissed me. I didn’t kiss him back — sure I didn’t stop him either,
but clearly Jason could see that?
    I slammed the palm of my hand on the steering
wheel in anger. Hot, angry tears streamed down my face.
    How could I do this? What the hell was I thinking?
    My fingernails dug into the steering wheel as
I imagined Luke’s face and all the terrible things I wanted to do to it . Oh,
who was I kidding? I was at fault here! I was the one who messed this up. I let Luke kiss me. I had to straighten things out with Jason as soon as I
could.
    Once I parked the car, I raced to the
elevator. Just as the elevator doors opened onto Jason’s penthouse suite,