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I didn’t knohat it was, but I kneas poison I also knew Fox hadirreversible

I stole it to prevent his to you"

Grabbing it, he unwrapped the suicide pill His face darkened; eyes narrowed "Why the fuck do you have this?" Anger blazed across his features "Do you kno dangerous this is? What the hell were you think--" Then panic replaced his fear and his fingers dug into …please tellthis For fuck’s sake, Zel What were you going to do?"

I jerked back, hot teht I’d be weak enough to kill hter, but I haven’t lost my mind!"

"Then why do you have it?" Roan bundled up the tissue, clenching his fist

"Because I didn’t want to walk in on you dead I hated the thought that you couldn’t stoest treason of all and kill yourself I stole it from you as I didn’t want you to die!"

Hepocket"

I shouted right in his face "Ever since I took it, I’ve been terrified of it I didn’t knohat to do" The relief that ca quietened er "I kept it taped to the underside ofit by mistake It haunted me, and I don’t want the responsibility any a word, Roan grabbedinto the house He jangled a set of keys, trying to find the right one, never letting go of ed me down the corridor and to a bathroom off a room that looked like a shadowed cinema

The i Fluffy turquoise toith sparkling silver tiles were so different to the black facilities at Obsidian

"Can’t believe you’ve been walking around with this in your pocket" Flipping open the lid of the toilet, he threw the tissue and pill into the basin Flushing it, he snapped, "There Gone Now Fox is really dead, and it’s about fucking time you met Roan"

I squealed as he scooped me off my feet and carted me up the hite stairs to the second floor I couldn’t see much in the ind of speed, but everywhere I looked hite Not one inch of black

Kicking a door open, he prowled inside and gave -size bed covered in silky pillows that looked like pristine clouds The huge expanse of glass welcomed the sand dunes and sea inside The carpet hite, the bedside tables and s area white

Everywhere I looked white, white, white

And then all I saas black as Roan threw ainst the softness of duck down I moaned as his body heat srief and thought only of him This man who’d turned my world upside down, back to front, inside out

His hands went to the little pearl buttons ofaccelerated, and he growled in frustration His touch broughtonto life

I grabbed the back of his head, whispering in his ear "Tear it off I never want to wear it again"

"Thank God," he groaned His hands bunched thescattered like death on all the perfect whiteness His eyes dropped to eous"

He bent over oing to love you every day I’ll never get enough of these" He cuppedh of this" His right hand trailed down s

I moaned as the possessive heat of his palm sent y Roan conjured, butto focus on er had any

I can’t do this

I froze

Roan’s hand dropped from me and he exhaled heavily "Fuck I’ the trickle of tears seeping froht that Clara was no longer insharp poked the botto to rub e fron swirled with er kne to live My heart had to relearn how to beat My mind had to co more life into the world

There was toodistance betweenhiainst hiht His warmth helped coer warrew cold in my arms in his office

My heart squeezed until I couldn’t breathe

How can Iwe stood there But Roan never stopped stroking o I’h andbeneath his shirt fro me

Finally, when my silent shudders had stopped, he disappeared and caht ht uessed myself the entire time I did it"