I do know what he means to you. I just left you to face it alone, whatever it was going to be. So he just let things go,let them drift away, and he allowed her to think of him what shewould. So he was left with nothing except the knowledge that he'd doneeverything wrong and that he'd have to explain himself to the oneperson he sought to emulate: DI Lynley.
He felt a stirring for her, then, that mixture of lust and love thatalways left him at once both weak and resolute, determined to be hermaster and at the same time completely within her power. Gideon! he shouted. She knew I did it alone. Notin the least.
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