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"I told you everything" Her voice shook with eh to tell you my secrets To trust you with them" And with her heart Which hy she had to try one more time to see if he would be honest with her about as hurting hi to do with today’s crash" She clenched her hands at her sides to keep fro for him, because if he pushed her away she would shatter into a thousand pieces on his kitchen floor "Won’t you trust me, too?"

He went completely still and for a ht be about to tell her why he was acting so weird

Only, when he finally spoke, it was just to say, "Trust me, it’s better this way It was only ahappened to her at the shop" He paused "Or before so happened to me Like today, out at the racetrack If I hadn’t been able to get out of the car, they would have taken her back anyway Better if it happens now, before she gets anyto"Wait a ot rid of the puppy for her own good?"

When he nodded, she shook her head in disbelief "That’s crazy Can’t you see how much she loves you? And that she doesn’t want to be with anyone else on the off chance that you’ll crash a race car one day?"

But with every word she spoke, she could see Zach shutting downto the cement wall he’d driven into today

Only this ti up in flaht she’d found hiuy who could prove to her that they weren’t all the same But she’d never know if she had or not, would she? Because he wouldn’t talk to her

Just like her father, Zach made all the rules and she was expected to follow the so hard to resist hiue away his loveand her own

Atlas silently s into it She walked into the bedroom to retrieve the extra clothes she’d started to leave at Zach’s house The bed mocked her, told her what she hadn’t wanted to believe was true

It had just been sex

Friends with benefitsonly, ht down to it

Zach’s eyes were dark as he watched her gather up her things, a ht beneath one of the scratches she was so teer over Just to be close to hiht, Zach would never have asked her if she was going He sio, would have pulled whatever tricks out of his sleeve to convince her she was better off staying with hi of work at the office"