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She threw her hands out and gripped onto the doorfraainst his head He had one arers in painfully His other hand went up and grabbed one of her ar it free She shrieked and tried to pull away, but it was too late A couple strides, and she was in the library

"What the fuck, Jarab people and make them do -," she started to yell, but it ended in a shriek as she was tossed onto a couch She bounced around and gripped onto the back of it

"Apparently, I fucking can I have been waiting all day for you Do you not answer your phone any over her He looked pissed She felt a shiver run over her skin

"It’s in my purse! I was busy," she told him

"Too busy to answer your phone I see So ere you and Angier up to for so long?" he asked

"Hu our way across Boston," she snapped back

"Goddah"

"Not everyone can be as quick as you"

His hand was at her throat in an instant

This is not quite how I i say to rowled "I have babied you I have been nice to you I have bent over fucking backwards for you I have done things for you that I have never done for anyone else The least you can do in return is answer your goddamn phone when I call"

"Someone missed ers digging in harder He wasn’t pressing down on her, though, so she slowly sat up

"Is that what you’ve been sitting at ho and I have been up to?" she asked

"Don’t flatter yourself," he replied

"You flatterthis upset If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you actually cared," she laughed lightly, holding onto his wrist with one hand

"You’d think wrong"

She stared up at him for a second Really looked at hi very hard to blind herself to hih hi at him, he would invade her Possess her It was too easy It had happened last fall It had happened in Spain So she had avoided it