Bedmates Soulmates
CHAPTER 397

"You approached me with an ulterior motive. I'm beginning to suspect you might have staged our first encounter. Do you think I can love a deceitful man like you?" 'I admit, I did approach you with something else in mind. But that was before I got to know you. Once I did, I couldn't help but fall for you. I'm serious, Kira. I love you.' A Plagiarised Love Poem

Instead of feeling touched, all Kira telt was disgust.

Just because he might have turned over a new leaf-a claim Kira strongly doubted, she had to forgive and forget?

And he was expecting more than just forgiveness.

He wanted her to reciprocate his feelings.

Liam's behaviour gave Kira a new understanding of the word 'shameless."

'You asked me out several times despite my repeated rejection,' Kira said coldly, knowing full well I'm Austyn's wife. You flirted with me brazenly. In confessing your love for me, you're trying to wreck my marriage and make me an adulteress. Is this what you call love? Kira drew herself up to her full height.

'You said you're serious about your feelings for me. You said you'd changed. But even your confession of love is plagiarised. Do you think I didn't recognise the poem from Elizabeth Browning?"

Kira matched his frosty look with one of her own.

Once I'm head over

'What on earth do you want from me? You want me to fall for you so you can take revenge on Austyn? Is that it? Once I'm h heels in love with you, you'll parade that fact in front of him, just like you did with Deborah?"

Liam pressed his lips into a thin line.

He glowered at her.

Kira held his gaze.

"Do you think I'm like Deborah? Easily seduced by your false charm into betraying Austyn?"

Liam clenched his fists.

Anger flitted across his face, but he held it in.

"I'm sorry to tell you, your plan failed. I won't fall for your trap, and I won't betray Austyn."

Thinking back, Kira realised how foolish she had been

"That day in the restaurant, you kissed me on purpose, didn't you? You knew Austyn was nearby, watching us. You kissed me just to provoke him."

Austyn was right t

to call her 'silly girl'

She had been more than silly; she had been blind.

"Are you done? Liam said flatly.

The mask was off now.

The good-humoured, ever-smiling Liam was gone.

His face was granite

'No, I'm not done,' Kira shot back. 'I'm just a pawn in your despicable game against Austyn. You are using me. All those sweet words you said just now were nothing but bajt. Once I bite, you'll reel me in like a fish, I don't find them sweet at all. Au contraire, they disgust me. YOU dispust me.' Kira delivered her closing remarks in a steady voice: 'So, give it up. I'm never going to fall for you or your trap. And I'm never going to betray Austyn for you. He is my husband. I have a duty to him. Do you understand?"

She could not cheat on Austyn, not while they were married.

It was just not in her nature,

Dad taught her to be an honest person.

Just because Austyn might b be a cheater didn't m

mean she should stoop to his level.

Two wrongs don't make a right, a

Dad used to say.

She was nut Deborah Connelly.

She was Kira Hewitt.