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Fletcher tilted his head "And you would honestly be happy to be someone’s dirty little secret?"

It was clear on her face that no, she wouldn’t be I knew exactly why she wouldn’t let that be an issue "You don’t want ain That’s all it is It was the only reason that you ever wanted me"

Her eyes flared "No I care for you"

"Then can’t you be happy for hi me that you would be happy for hi that I would want to skin you alive andout of your flesh, but I’d stay away and let him live his life I certainly wouldn’t be so pathetic as to hang around hi to lure him back to ?"

"Don’t you have any pride at all?" Fletcher asked Joy, shaking his head in aht with hatred, she sneered at him "Says the one who prances around like a fairy"

Fletcher seemed more amused than offended "I’m ot a point, Joy"

A flush of pure anger crept up her neck and face "It ht not be me that Jared comes to when he finally realises what he really needs, but he will turn away from you at some point You’d be a fool to doubt that" Then, in vampire speed, she disappeared

Fletcher swerved to look atagain, Sam answered for me "Of course she does I know it seems weird, but think about it from her neurotic point of view Jared didn’t just have her as a consort; he had two others as well Joy probably wasn’t too happy about it Then there’s the fact that, even with three consorts, he still bonked other females when the mood struck him Her mind had two choices: believe that she wasn’t what he needed because she lacked somehow and he didn’t care at all for her, or believe that he was simply someone who needed more than one woht even care for her She convinced herself of the latter, because it suited her to believe that Ithim Bound and committed to someone else threatens her illusion," deduced Fletcher "If she accepted that you’re all he needs, she’d have to accept that what she’s always believed in the cause of emotional self-preservation is untrue"

Sam nodded "And ould want to accept that the person they care about has never cared about them? It would certainly piss me the fk off"

It would pisspoint was in finding and caring for this person so much if they would never feel the same To then have that person leave me for soh to join with them for life – would be the final twist of the knife Wanting to fend off the dark feelings threatening to surface at just the idea of that, I slipped my arm around Sam to pull her close Okay, so I could feel a teensy bit sorry for Joy, just as I did for Cristiano But I still believed thatHeir hat interested Joy the ed, as if to shake off the ht I’, offered aze to ’s on yourto ask what it is Tellthat she wasn’t pushing, I kissed her gently "We’ll talk about it soon," I pro back is annoying the shit out of you – I can sense it Usually when I piss you off in some way, you retaliate with that whip of yours But you’ve contained yourself"

She placed her hands on my chest Her smile dripped with pity "Aw, Jared, whateverto containbackwards and landed in the pool

Kicking to the surface, I coughed up the lowered atrather self-satisfied, she folded her arht?"

She smiled "It’s part of why you love ht, it was