“Demetri, you have to understand where I was coming from. The damage that my mother had done to me, breaking my already fragile psyche. Self-confidence was never my strong suit as you well know. I never felt special, and then suddenly, here in Cane’s Inlet, I’m being pursued by two men—one I fell in love with…”
“And the other, what? You fell in lust with?”
“Parker is selfish, out to fulfill his own ambitions, his own pleasures. I don’t know, but for some reason Ginette Hatcher entrusts him with…whatever. I was worried what he’d told her, what he’d found out, what she suspected. That’s all I have to go on. There’s no other motivation on his part to seduce me. It wasn’t s*x, it was power. Not like I’m some desirable conquest he considered out of his league. I’m just…me. Parker on the other
