Page 41 (1/2)

"Okay" His thumb stroked over h the rest

"It wasn’t just…sex I loved hiht was him I didn’t ask questions when he was busy I never wondered why he was so against spending the night at ht-year-old ethics professor, and I was a twenty-one-year-old student Of course he couldn’t spend the night withwith iven h slipped free "You have to knohere this is going, right? I’"

His eyes weren’t judge to ot to Grayson, the more I understood that he wasn’t aloof because he felt superior He was aloof because it kept him alive

"You weren’t the only one," he whispered

I shookthat heto risk so much But then I slipped into his office one day with this sexy little note to sneak into his pocket, and I found it--his wedding ring" It had been cool in my palm, that tiny circle that flat-lined n that he’d heard me

"Guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree, huh?" I forced a fake saze "Your mother?"

"I hated her for years, because I couldn’t have my dad He was already so us around for four years, he chose them Funny how I turned out just like her after I swore I’d never make her mistake Does that earn ?"

He leaned forward, pressing his lips firmly to my forehead "This is not your fault You didn’t knoas married You are not responsible for his sin He, and he alone is"

The pit into suck me in "You don’t understand There was this ht--just for a second--about si I’d been so happy, and I didn’t want it to end I wanted him to choose me I’d finally realized why Mo for a man ould never keep his proh--to even contemplate the same"

"But you ended it"

"Sure, before Harrison could Before he could make the promises that he’d leave his wife, or say that I was his world, only to eventually walk away"