I was sitting in a coffee shop, staring into the middle distance, my mind a tangled mess.I’d sigh one minute, then scowl the next.That dizzy, floaty feeling I’d had, the one that made me feel like I was walking on clouds after learning Lochlan had taken on the Abrams family for me, had protected me, had literally taken a knife for me… it had evaporated completely.Now, in the cold light of day, I realised I’d been an absolute idiot.He’d saved me, he’d had my back, but that didn’t mean we were equals.The boss was the boss. He could be kind and gentlemanly one moment, and then, if I said one wrong thing that brushed against his authority, he could turn razor-sharp and icily arrogant in the next.If I got hurt by that, it was my own fault for not knowing my place. I needed to be sharper, more clear-headed. I couldn’t let his occasional kindness fool me into thinking he was approachable enough to be my friend.And I absolutely, under no circumstances, could let myself indulge in the ri
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