“Eve looked up at him, eyes wide. Was he saying she could ask for anything? She’d already told him she loved him but he’d laughed in her face. What else could she possibly need from him that wasn’t about how she felt?
“Anything within reason,” Roman added. “We still have to follow the rules.”
He looked intently at her as if he had read her mind. The little hope that had flared inside her died a painful death. She looked away from his probing gaze and sighed.
“Then I guess there’s nothing you can give me. Your rules don’t give me much freedom in this arrangement.”
She looked back up at him and saw a muscle tick in his jaw. Something flashed in his eyes that looked like anger, but it was gone so quickly that she wondered if she had imagined it.
“Perhaps you can start by telling me wha
