Her shoulders tense. "At the hotel that you took me to?"
"No," I answer quickly, my eyes focused on her hands. "A cheap place by the club."
"She said you saw me at Skyn." Her voice cracks but she restores it in the next breath. "You were there the night I was?"
"Yes," I admit. "I went there that night."
Her gaze falls to her lap. "I talked about the club. You didn't tell me you saw me there."
I ache to reach over to touch her. I can't stand this distance. I can't breathe knowing she's upset with me. "You spoke about the club. You told me it was something you wanted to forget. You were humiliated by the experience. I didn't want to remind you of that."
"That's not fair." Her finger darts into the air before she pulls it back. "You should have told me you were there."
"I should have but I caused that embarrassment. I was the one who requested that you be removed from the club. I actually insisted on it. I wanted to protect you, Isla."
She shakes her head. "That makes no sense, Gabriel. She said you chose me."
I rake both hands through my hair. "I went to the club that night because I wanted to fuck you, Isla. You had been in my office the day before. I'd been up all night aching, wanting. I had to get you out of my mind, so I went there."
Her head shifts slightly, but her eyes don't move from her lap.
"Sage had someone she thought I'd like but I felt nothing when I looked at her. Then I saw you. I didn't know it was you. All I knew was that it was a woman with the most beautiful body I'd ever seen. She moved unlike any woman I'd ever known. The attraction was immediate and intense. It was exactly what I felt when I walked into the boutique and saw you the day before. Everything around me disappeared at the club that night and then you turned and I saw your face."
"You told them to throw me out?"
"Yes and then I watched them do it," I confess. "I saw what happened. I saw how humiliated you were. I wanted to go to you, hold you. I wanted to take you home."
"That's why you kissed me before my birthday in this car." Her hand slaps the seat of the car. "It's because you knew I liked those things. You knew I wanted to be handcuffed."
Jesus, please. Please don't let this steal her from me.
I move to her then, because I can't stand the pain she's in. I wrap my arm around her. She doesn't resist. "I kissed you because I wanted to. I kissed you because I have never wanted to kiss a woman more."
She turns then, her eyes a stormy shade of blue that pierce into me. "No. You kissed me because you knew I liked to be handcuffed. You saw them on the club floor, didn't you?"
I reach for her chin, cupping it in my palm. I tilt her head back. "If I never cuff you to another bed, or draw a crop across your skin again, it won't change how I feel about you. That is not what this is. I love you, Isla. I love you."
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CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
Isla
I rest my head on his shoulder. I'm not mad that he was at the club that night. I was there too, for the exact reason he was. I wanted to fuck someone. I wanted to forget things. We ended up in the same place, under very different circumstances, but it brought us together.
"Would you have told me, Gabriel?" I look up at his face. "Do you think that you would have ever told me?"
"I would have tonight." He traces his finger over my forehead. "I hated that restaurant. It was too close to the club. I knew there was a chance someone would walk in. I also knew the chances were slim that they'd say something but the secret was suffocating me. I intended to tell you."
"Did you see me talking to the dentist?" I drop my gaze back to my lap. "I was talking to a dentist that night."
"You were talking to an asshole," he corrects me. "When I saw you turn and I knew it was you, I almost tore you away from him myself."
His arms tighten around me. "What would have happened to me that night if you weren't there?"