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together.”
     
    White hot anger blazed in her chest. She reached out and grabbed Dylan by the jaw and yanked his face towards her.
     
    “Don’t you turn away from me. Don’t you turn away from this . I deserve to know why you didn’t want me anymore. If you say we can’t be together, fine. But at least tell me why.”
     
    His eyes smoldered with green fire, but what he was thinking, she had no idea.
     
    “It’s not important. You don’t need to know.”
     
    The man was unreadable. A puzzle. Whatever secrets he was keeping from her, she’d have to drag them out of him.
     
    “It is important. I do need to know.”
     
    “Fine,” he said finally. “It was your brother.”
     
    Rory rolled her eyes in frustration. “This again? You think he wouldn’t approve of us being together? Is that it?”
     
    Dylan growled in frustration. “I don’t think he would disapprove. I know he did.”
     
    “What are you talking about? He never knew about us.”
     
    Dylan’s jaw worked silently for a moment, as if he was suppressing some overwhelming emotion.
     
    “He found out,” Dylan said.
     
    “So?”
     
    “So the last thing he ever said to me was to stay away from you.”
     

Chapter 4
     
    Dylan watched Aurora’s reaction. The truth was out there now, at least, all the truth Dylan was willing to divulge. She didn’t need to know the rest. It was a burden Dylan would carry all alone to spare her the horrible, final truth.
     
    He could see the warring emotions on her beautiful face. Pain twisted his guts at the knowledge that he’d caused this. The truth was, he never meant to tell her any of this. He’d promised himself that, after Hunter died. He’d kept that promise for the last four years.
     
    It was one of the reasons he’d stayed away from her all this time. He thought about going to see her so many times. She had never really been far from his thoughts. The temptation had been great, but somehow he managed to resist.
     
    He knew if he saw her again he might not be able to keep all the secrets he’d sworn to keep. And he had been right. He’d already let one slip.
     
    Aurora had only been back in his life for a day and he’d told her something he never meant to tell her. He didn’t want her to resent her brother. The man was dead and buried. The least Dylan could do to honor his fallen friend’s memory was to keep his sister’s image of him intact.
     
    He had failed. Aurora knew how to push his buttons. She knew how to get to Dylan in a way that no one else in the world did.
     
    Besides, she’d thrown him off balance by coming on to him in just a towel. Even now, with guilt and dread weighing heavily upon him, he found it impossible to ignore the seductive woman standing in front of him. She was the sexiest woman he’d ever known, and the only woman he’d ever loved.
     
    The white towel clung to her like a second skin, giving him more than a hint of her luscious curves. The swell of her breasts, the curve of her hips, and her long shapely legs had him throbbing with desire.
     
    She shook her head as she was trying to process his statement. A bead of water trickled down her neck into the line of her cleavage. Dylan’s eyes followed that drop with great interest. All kinds of dirty thoughts ran through his head that had nothing to do with the conversation they were having.
     
    “I don’t understand,” she said. “Why would he say that?”
     
    The sound of her voice snapped Dylan back to attention. He shook his head. “I’m not sure. We never got the chance to talk it through.”
     
    “But he loved you like a brother. I don’t understand why he would disapprove of the two of us getting together.”
     
    She looked so sad when she said it. So lost. It was the way he’d felt when Hunter first told him. Dylan had always suspected that Hunter wouldn’t approve. Aurora was his little sister, and friends don’t sleep with their friend’s sisters.
     
    Dylan had always