Notorious

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“You were pretending?” he said.

Her green eyes were expressionless. If anything, she looked slightly puzzled. “Of course I was,” she said. “Weren’t you?”

“I …” There was an odd emptiness beneath Devlin’s heart. “That innocent response,” he said. His throat felt dry. “It was feigned?”

She smiled. It was a smile that made him feel a naive fool. “Men seem to like it,” she murmured.

“And you always give men what they want,” Dev said. He could feel the bitterness rising like bile in his throat.

“If it gains me what I want.”

Dev took her by the shoulders, searching her face for any clue that she lied, looking for even a hint that the storm of sensation that had racked him had touched her, too. She met his gaze defiantly.

“I don’t believe you,” he said. “You wanted me, too.”

Susanna shrugged and turned her face away from him.

“Your opinion is not important to me,” she said. “You were trying to prove a point. You failed.”

Dev let her go, sinking back onto the seat. The taut desire had drained from him now and he felt chilled and empty. Susanna’s words were no more than a salutary reminder of how cynical she had become.

“I find I would rather walk than suffer any more of your … conversation,” Susanna said. She rapped sharply on the roof of the carriage. The hackney jerked to a halt.