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His lips part, but he just stares at ot more to say "I’ll tell you what happened, Zack My expectations did grow With every touch you gave me, every time you invited uilt withbloorew I can’t help it Huo ahead and lay this on ladly take the blame In fact, I insist on it I’uilt that h in your life"

Spinning away, I stalk into the bathroo my toiletries out of the shower When I walk back into the bedrooaze on the carpet, his shoulders hunched forward

"I really tried," he says in defeat

Suddenly, the anger withinsadness So damn sad because I hear the remorse in his voice So damn sad because the one person I want above all else has just thrown in the proverbial towel Any hope that I ht for ht then and there

"I know you did," I tell him as I drop the toiletries on aze to me and his pain is alive hi "I know You apologized already for it weeks ago and I accepted, reoing to go get Ben fro and you can spend time with him before you leave"

"Okay," I whisper, but he never looks back at e almost wearily down the stairs and then the door closes behind hiainst the bed, and cry over the unfairness of it all

Chapter 29

Zack

TWO WEEKS LATER…

Are you in a strip club?

I glance down at the text froe in front of me He knows me well

I pick up my phone and text back to hiood?