Chapter Twenty Nine

Elena blanched. Lucas had obviously told him about that; she wished that he hadn’t.

‘I... He’ll pay me back.’ She defended both Wayne’s request and her own acceptance of it.

‘Things have certainly changed since my time at university,’ Roth told her cynically. ‘Then it was the man who did the chasing, the pursuing, not the woman who had to secure the man’s attentions by offering him money.’

Elena stared at him, unable to keep either her shock or the pain his words had caused her from showing in her eyes.

‘It isn’t like that... I haven’t been pursuing Wayne. I don’t...’

She stopped abruptly and looked away from him. How could she tell Roth of all men...people...that she didn’t run after his sex, when he had good reason to believe otherwise after the ways she had so blatantly revealed her feelings for

him? Now he was looking at her in that horribly cynical way, his mouth twisting in mocking contempt.

‘lucas asked me to come,’ he told her as she remained silent. ‘He’s had to go awa