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I stood, turned my back on him, and took two decisive, necessary steps away I didn’t knohat to say to him, what to do with myself, but I knew I couldn’tin his arile second

We were both silent for a solid minute and then another I stared at the wall, my shoulders hunched, fists clenched

Finally, I couldn’t take it anyaze was so warm on me--tender--and I didn’t knohat to do with how that made me feel He hadn’t had that warmth in his eyes for me in years I’d made sure he had no reason to Gone to drasticat ?

"Stop looking at me like that," I told him slowly, reproach in every syllable of every word

"Like what?"

"You know"

"You think I can help it?" he countered softly "When could I ever help it?"

I lost my breath No, he’d knocked it out of ot in ood hit from him and I was stripped of eous,round

KO Done

He needed to leave now

I opened my mouth to tell him so, but just then there was a soft knock at my bedroom door

"Scar dear, your boyfriend is here," Demi’s concerned voice called

My eyes were still on Dante’s, so I saw theas all tenderness was sucked out and replaced by so cold and dark and all too fae I almost believed it

"Boyfriend?" he uttered softly, his voice ruot when he was on the edge of losing his teh his was harder to provoke

My own tenite and could be indiscri to behold when things went south

A sh me

Our eyes were still locked as I called back to Demi, "I’ll be out in just a second, hun"

"Boyfriend?" he repeated quietly, punching it out in a dangerous clip, the thunder closer to the surface now, eyes going black as he began in earnest to lose the battle with the storainst hiry Faround Enjoyable, even A o, Dante"

"Does he know I fucked you last night?" He did not say this quietly He said it loud enough to be heard, and not just by hten, a slow, fahs