Chapter 20

　　“Tell me what you need. What can I do to make you want to stay?”

　　Eve looked up at him, eyes wide. Was he saying she could ask for anything? She’d already told him she loved him and he’d laughed in her face. What else could she possibly need from him that wasn’t about how she felt?

　　“Anything within reason,” Roman added. “We still have to follow the rules.”

　　He was looking at her so intently as if he had read her mind. She looked away from his probing gaze and sighed.

　　“Then I guess there’s nothing you can give me. Your rules don’t give me much freedom in this arrangement.”

　　She looked back up at him and saw a muscle tick in his jaw. She saw something flash in his eyes that looked like anger but it was gone so quickly she wondered if she had imagined it.

　　“Perhaps you can start by telling me what you think is so disagreeable,” Roman said. “Disregard the fact that I put money in your account every month. Maybe we can negotiate.”