“I needed to know. I can’t truly protect you if I don’t know what you’re afraid of, what you’ve been through. Lisa, you could have really hurt yourself. You need to understand that I’ll come for you. I’ll find you. No matter where you are. I will find you. I promise. I won’t stop until I find you.”

“Yeah, I guess losing that hundred K would put a damper on your day.” She didn’t want to listen to his earnestness. He was an excellent actor when he wanted to be. He could make a woman melt when he started talking. “I’m afraid your game is up. They’re going to have to pro rate your fee because I’m done playing the fool.”

He sat up, his lips firming before he spoke. “You aren’t a fool of any kind. I told you. The fact that I was your bodyguard has nothing to do with being your lover. They’re two different things. I assure you I reacted like your lover earlier this evening and not some cold-ass professional bodyguard. If your brother should fire me for something, it’s that. I panicked when I thought I lost you. I couldn’t think. I didn’t even try to follow him. It wasn’t even a choice I made. Javier had to. He still lost him, but at least he tried. All I could do was cry and hold you.”

She couldn’t buy into it. Oh, she wanted to because the man could sell it. But she couldn’t trust him again. And she definitely couldn’t trust herself. She made bad, bad decisions.

“I think you should leave now.” The last thing she wanted him to see was how she was going to cry over him. The tears were right there, weighing on her, desperate to get out.

“I’m not going anywhere.” He sat back. “Lisa, this is not a problem. I told your brother earlier tonight that he could keep the money. I would do all of this for free. I’ll find another way to buy the wharf. My house might bring in more than I think it will.”

She’d driven by his house all those months ago. Stalker. Pathetic, sad stalker. “I doubt that. Take whatever they’ll give you and go home, Remy. Be happy. I’ll try to do the same here.”

He shook his head. “I cannot be happy without you.”

“Then you should have thought of that before you lied to me.” She could handle a lot but trust was everything to her. He’d broken it and broken them. She wouldn’t be able to trust him again. Every word that came out of his mouth would remind her that he’d started their relationship with a lie.

Had he ever wanted her? Maybe he was like most guys and he could get an erection from a stiff breeze.