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how. He couldn’t bust in her room right now, not with that other man there.
    He hadn’t realized how much he would have missed her. Despite the fact he had been the idiot who had left her, he had cared deeply for her. He had loved her, still did.
    Dimitri’s impromptu decision to withhold his reason for leaving her had sealed his fate, at least in her eyes. Even his teammates had told him he was a fool for not telling her.
    Part of him was sure Landi’s friend Koali Zimmerman, nee Tra-vis, knew what had happened between them. Her attitude toward him had cooled considerably. She was unfailingly polite to him, but he knew that was out of respect for her husband, another one of his teammates.
    Muttering in Greek, Dimitri went to the front desk. He was getting a room here and would wait in it until he could go back to Landi’s room and talk to her. As he walked across the lobby, his phone rang.
    It was AJ.
    “What do you want?” he snapped.
    “I want you to leave her alone. She’s exhausted, and seeing you is only stressing her out.”
    “You are in no position to tell me what I should and shouldn’t do,” he growled.

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    Aliyah Burke
    “Grow up, Dimitri. We both know I could have persuaded her to let me share her bed. Out of respect for you, I didn’t. But you need to think about this, carefully. She isn’t ready to hear you out.”
    Dimitri bit back his response. AJ was right. He was very smooth with the ladies and would have had no issue getting anyone he wished in bed. “I’m not losing her again,” he vowed. “I’ll do whatever I have to to get her back.”
    AJ chuckled. “I’ve no doubt of that, cousin. But give her a break tonight.”
    “Point taken, AJ.”
    “You know I love you, Dimitri Androcles. You are a brother to me.”
    “I know. And I appreciate it immensely. Just stop flirting with my woman.
    AJ’s laughter reached him easily. “I like her. She’s good for you.”
    Dimitri sighed. AJ was right. Landi was good for him. All he had to do was convince her that he had made a colossal mistake and remind her of how good they were together. “Good night, cousin.”
    “’Night.”
    Dimitri hung up the phone and left Landi’s hotel for his own.
    Sleep, shower, and come sunrise, he would be ready for whatever Ms.
    Landi Nycks dished out.
    A smile played up the corner of his lips as he walked. Ilanderae Nycks was one hell of a woman—explosive content in a small package.

    Landi and Jason worked late into the night. They had one final presentation to deliver before catching a flight back home. Jason had mulled over the idea of leaving early, given the unrest that had erupted in the streets, but Landi had convinced him otherwise.
    She hated leaving before completing the job. Part of her also wanted to make sure she wasn’t just running away from running into Dimitri Melonakos again. She shivered. Just the thought of that man, created havoc in her body.
    Her throat grew dry and her skin grew clammy. Her mind was on his golden eyes, darkly tanned olive skin, and that thick black hair he had as she’d said goodnight to Jason.
    She set the designs on the desk in her room and went to the bathroom to get ready for a few hours of sleep.

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    “Even after all this time, just seeing him turns me into mush. It’s like my body forgot how he left us. Alone. At the goddamn altar!” She slammed her brush down on the tile countertop. “Damn him!” she swore. “Damn him for still making me feel something!” It didn’t matter theirs had been a whirlwind two-week relationship heading for the altar. All that had mattered was how right it had felt on that weekend he’d asked her to marry him. There was so little known about him, except how he made her feel.
    Furiously wiping away the traitorous tears that had snuck out from behind her eyes, Landi quickly brushed her teeth before climbing into bed. Squeezing her eyes shut, she did her best to shove Dimitri’s mental image out of her