“Listen to me: I heard the entirety of your conversation with Maxim. It was good; you were in controlthe entire time—or at least, that’s what anyone who doesn’t know you would think. But I’m yourbrother. I do know you. And that’s how I clocked it.”
“The subtext. You care about Camila. Hell, maybe you’re even in love with her—if a cold-heartedson of a b***h like you is capable of something like that.”
I play off my sudden stiffening. “She’s a tool, Bogdan. She’s the trump card I’m keeping up my sleeveuntil the right time to deploy. Nothing more.”
He rolls his eyes. “That’s not the reason you approached her that night in the restaurant.”
I grit my teeth. “I’ll admit there was something about her. I couldn’t walk away. But now, I wish Ihad.”
“I do,” I s
