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don’t want it back. Like I
said, I’ll soon be marrying someone else.”
     

CHAPTER FOUR
     
     
    “Bitch
! Traitor !  Liar!”
I slammed my fist into Lexis’s cheekbone. Usually my first instinct was not to
fight but to say something bitchy and run. However, these past few days my anger
levels had been so spiked it was almost a relief to let go like this. At least
physically. I felt I’d been waiting for this moment forever.
    Her
head snapped to the side and she stumbled backward a few steps, righted herself
and glared over at me. Her gaze never falling from me, she used the back of her
hand to wipe at the soot my blazing skin had left and the blood trickling from
the cut my engagement ring had caused. Rome might not remember me, but Lexis
wouldn’t be forgetting who I was to him anytime soon. I wasn’t taking the ring
off, and I damn sure wasn’t selling it. Hell, no.
    “Nothing
to say?” I was panting, barely able to contain the flames working through me.
Any moment they might burst free, charring everything and everyone around me.
    Good,
I thought. Let them.
    “Get
out of my face, Belle. I’m better at this game than you are. Trust me, you
don’t want to mess with me.”
    “Oh,
but I do. And I don’t care if you grind me into powder, I’m not letting you get
away with this.”
    Lexis
and I were standing inches apart inside the workout room John kept for his
agents. After leaving Rome, I’d searched the entire building and had found her
in here, running on the treadmill. She’d taken one look at me and had jumped
down, clearly prepared to deal with nothing more than a heated conversation.
    That’s
when I’d punched her.
    She
might be a powerful psychic, but she’d never been able to predict the things
that would happen to her. As I now planned to do with all my enemies, I had
used her weaknesses against her and I wasn’t sorry.
    “And
anyway, why are you here? Why aren’t you interviewing one of the prisoners like
you were told?” I already knew the answer. She’d been waiting for me. Or
rather, for a chance to pounce on Rome, to see if he’d remembered me.
    Sweat
dripped from her chest, past her vivid red sports bra and down the planes of
her flat belly. “Had no luck with him, I take it?” she asked in that smug tone
I so hated.
    Bingo.
I’d been right. “No thanks to you.”
    Guilt
flashed, quickly gone. “You’re not right for him. It’s time you both realized
it.”
    “Is
that so?” Before his last mission, Rome had been teaching me to fight. And
fight dirty. Without warning, I kicked out my leg and nailed her in the
stomach. Breath whooshed from her mouth as she skidded backward, instinctively
hunching over. Other agents were in the room, and I heard them muttering:
    “Hundred
on Lexis. Girl has skill!”
    “Dude,
you haven’t seen The Mighty Water Hose in a temper. You’re on.”
    “Is
anyone else as turned-on by this as I am?”
    “You
don’t want to do this,” Lexis repeated, straightening. Even sweaty and winded,
she was a beautiful sight. The shiny length of her black hair was pulled back
in a ponytail, her green eyes flashed brightly and pink flushed the exotic
slope of her cheeks.
    “What
you’ve done to me, Rome and Tanner is underhanded and wrong, and you know it.
Someone needs to punish you, and I happily volunteer.”
    “I
don’t care if it’s wrong. I don’t care if it hurts you. I can’t!” Righteous
fervor poured from her, a deluge that only strengthened my anger. “I love him.”
    I
sputtered for a moment, dumbfounded by her logic. “And that makes your behavior
okay? If you truly loved him, you would have warned him about the danger he
faced. Had the situation been reversed, had I known I would lose him, I still
would have warned him to save him. That’s real love. But guess what?
None of that matters. You had your chance with him. You blew it, cut him loose
and he moved on. He wants me now.”
    Her
chin lifted, and hell, she’d never appeared