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    Turning to look at Gibson, I knew by the look he gave me those words had also registered with him, because he had slowed down and was pulling the car in at the side of the road. “Hear that, Chloe? You want to let the bastard win or you want to take a chance on me?”
    Nodding, I had to give him something to let him know that I at least wanted to try. “Yes.” Being with Gibson had made me feel alive and although he was straight talking and brash at times, I felt safer with him than with anyone else at that point. I wasn’t sure about trust when I had said yes to him. I doubted whether I’d ever trust anyone again.
    My attachment to Gibson was ambivalent. On one hand my heart was already aching because I knew that I could fall so hard for him that I’d never recover. And on the other, my indecision was fuelled by what happened in the past and would affect how we were around each other.
    “Fuck Chloe, you’re doing it again. What does yes mean?” Gibson had turned to face me, his scowling eyes ticking over me with a worried look on his face as traffic whizzed past us on the busy freeway. Luckily, we had blacked out windows and the world couldn’t see who was in the car or he’d have been mobbed.
    “Yes Gibson, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but yes, I do want to take a chance on—” Gibson’s eye brows shot up as his eyes checked me out then his lips crushed mine before I could finish the sentence. When he broke the kiss he was slightly breathless and looked relieved. Smiling that sexy panty-dropping smile of his, Gibson made my heart melt and for a moment I he made me feel like I’d given him the stars.
    “Damn, you’re smarter than I thought you were. You won’t regret it. All of me…that’s what you’ll get, darlin’, no fucking half measures…I promise. You’ll have to travel with me, but after the tour I’m taking a month off. I’m not letting you go anywhere without me. We’re taking a month off. And I’ve already told Lennox we’re scaling back. I’m tired and I need to find time for the causes I want to support, besides I’ve met this new girl and I’m really into her, ya know?”
    Glancing quickly at him I saw a look that I can only describe as embarrassment, an unusual look on Gibson and it elevated him to an even sexier status in my mind. “Sorry Chloe, of course I need to fit some stuff around what you want to do. That sounded selfish, me going on like that, but I was only thinking out loud about what Lennox and I spoke about before you came on the scene.”
    “Mm-hm, glad you said that, Gibson, you may just have redeemed yourself towards the end of that little speech right there.” Smiling at him I could see he was mulling over what I said but he didn’t respond.
    Turning to face the front, he pressed the button to start the car and began to drive again. Then indicating, he gave his full attention to setting us back on the road safely.  When he achieved that he glanced fleetingly at me and grinned widely.
    “Jesus Chloe, you just made me one happy man, darlin’. “ Grasping the steering wheel, his fingers gripped and relaxed a couple of times and that little action didn’t go unnoticed. “We’ll be there in about ten minutes, then we’ll eat and talk properly.”
    Nerves bubbled inside as my belly flip flopped at how excited Gibson sounded and his declaration made me feel a little more confident that he really was happy about being with me, so I tried to think of the positives, such as the trouble he took to meet me and hiring the yacht to spend time with me after I won the competition. So I made it my silent promise to try to accept that Gibson wasn’t playing games, and for some unfathomable reason was choosing me out of millions of women to be with.
    Gibson had neglected to fill me in on where we were going, and maybe because I was worried about the fans coming after him or maybe because I had been so self-absorbed, I hadn’t got round to asking