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The other arm was busy elsewhere, but I wouldn’t connect those dots until later, when it would do ood

I folded my body asofat h with her, drawing firm at one abused peak until she sobbed

I pulled back, but she gripped ainst ain

I switched to the other, leaving bruisingthe skin between on the journey there

I helped her jerk up and downher flesh in e of it a reed

She ca up tight with a few tight squeezes

My nails dug into her hps as, with a hoarse shout, I sla my breath underneath her when she leaned back to look , she covered my nose and mouth with a piece of material that reeked of chemicals

I’d never actually smelled it before, but almost instantly, I knehat it was

Green eyes met mine over the ether soaked cloth

"I love you," Iris ht before the world went black

CHAPTER SEVEN

I woke up alone and in my own bed

Alone and sore as hell, head to toe

I doubted the bastard had been gentle when he’d transferred ain

Alone, sore as hell, and furious

I sla a need to lash out and vent in a way that only helplessness could breed

I didn’t know if I was relieved or more pissed off when I found a note on my kitchen counter

It wasn’t written by Iris, of thatand the hostility that fairly leapt off the page, that Heath had penned it

DON’T TELL ANYONE WHAT HAPPENED OR WHERE YOU’VE YOU BEEN YOU’LL BE PUTTING IRIS AT RISK IF YOU DO, SO JUST KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND DON’T TRY TO LOOK FOR HER BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, I’LL HAVE MOVED HER AGAIN

I really hated that motherfucker Sincerely

What was I supposed to do?

Just wait around until he decided to kidnap o drive for hours in the back of a creepy van, fk Iris raw, then have her knockinside her

Iris had fking ether tapped et over it

Whose side was she on, anyway?