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‘Olivia, stop it!’ He slae to fight the me!’

I finally relent, but only because of utter exhaustion, and pant in his face, trying to glare throughsomeone’

He draws in a deep breath It’s a confidence-boosting breath, and it ree to what he wants, it will destroy you, Olivia And there’s no guarantee that once I do this, he won’t askas he’s breathing, he’s a threat to our happiness’

I shake erous You’d never be able to pull it off – hehis back’ My panic is escalating I heard Gregory uns ‘And you can’t live with this on your conscience for the rest of your life’

‘It’s too dangerous not to And Charlie hi words hold me silent for a second before realisation slao on a date?’

He nods ht ets worse by thedeep and possessive inside ofand kissing hi, Let him kill Charlie The world’s a better place without hireeel, too, and she’s looking at , but I knohat she’d say if she did

Let hi to hi lord,’ he says quietly ‘She’s wantedher partner All she wants is the power If Charlie delivers et in with the Russians It would be a very lucrative partnership, and he’s wanted it for a long time’

‘Why don’t they just join forces anyway?’

‘The Russian’s sister won’t agree to an association unless she gets o ofaway fro back on his knees Apprehension is pouring fro hi at his shoulders, encouraging him to turn away from me, and when his back comes into view, I fall apart

It’s atiny beads of blood and others are swollen His back looks like a roadmap He really did want me to hurt him, but his reasons were far deeper than a pleasure-pain s to soers intoof my breath fro and takinght ‘Please, don’t cry’

Guilt attacksMiller’s willingness to do so it No matter how uise, that he deserves everything he gets, I still can’t convince ree Miller would shoulder the burden for the rest of his life, and now that I know, so will I I can’t let him do that to us It’ll be like a noose around our necks for the rest of our lives together

‘Shhhhh,’ he soothes, pulling me onto his lap

‘Let’s run away,’ I sob It’s the only way ‘We’ll take Nan and go far, far away’ Mya mental list of places as he looks at me fondly, like I just don’t understand

‘We can’t’

I feel aggravation budding as a result of his simple and final answer ‘Yes, we can’

‘No, Olivia We can’t’

‘We can!’ I yell, ather his patience ‘Stop saying we can’t e can!’ We could go now Pack Nan up and drive off I don’t care where we end up, as long as it’s miles from London, away from this vile, cruel world I’m not sure why Miller has claimed to be on his way to hell, because it feels like he’s already there And I’m with him

Blue eyes slowly peel open Haunted blue eyes They steal my breath and stop my heart, but not in the usual way ‘I cannot leave London,’ he says clearly, his look and tone daring me to interrupt him He’s not done yet He really can’t leave London and there’s a da on me’

I hate my body’s natural instinct to re up the courage to ask the operative question ‘What?’ I barely hear myself

His Adam’s apple protrudes fro s, and his lovely face has drifted intonothing ‘I killed ais aroundfast I s repeatedly, ht face Myincreasingly hard ‘I’ I round aroundinto hell ‘He can’t prove it,’ I clai my mouth words that I have no control over Maybe it’sto believe it’s true I don’t know ‘No one will believe hi him