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Anna response was quick, fluid, believable "My sister was gettingAnd then, when she was heading off on her honeymoon, Cole showed up out of the blue We just couldn’t wait another second"

Cole’s gut cramped at her easy lie She could never have done that on Friday He’d pros, but he’d neverthe truth

How could he ever forgive hi that to her?

Cynthia turned off her recorder "Seriously, guys,to love your story

It’s so ro with me If I have follow-up questions, I’ll be in touch Look for the story in the weekend edition"

They said their goodbyes, walking the journalist out to a cab They drove back to his house in silence There were so s he didn’t kno to say

Nothing in his life had prepared hiave his, no deiven her pleasure, but along the way he’d forced her to take on skills she should never have needed to know

Lying

Evading

They walked into his house and Anna reached for his hand "Are you okay?"

He wanted so badly to pull her against hi her with his touch "You don’t deserve this h his, so war, Cole Marrying you, staying with you, doing this interview--they were allIf I wanted to stop, I’d stop"

He didn’t have the strength to keep his gaze off her beauty, the innocence that still clung to her, despite his bad influence And then he saw it, the question in her eyes

"What you said to Cynthiadid you mean it?"

Since that firstlost in her eyes Lost again even as guilt bore down on hiht"

She’d protected hiht of therandmother had ever protected hih to take a risk like that for him

Her beautiful eyes sith disbelief and confusion "How could you possibly think I’m brave?"

It killed him that she didn’t see it, that she didn’t already know

"Do you re her forehead into his chest But he wouldn’t let her hide from him, couldn’t stand not to see the sweet heat in her eyes as she rewound back to their first tirinned down at her No one had ever ood And not just in bed, where she kept blowing his

"You could have told me to stop at any time" He brushed a lock of hair away froht, but every ti, "That was just sex"

"I’ve had plenty of sex, sweet girl Trustisn’t even close to