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“But now, Cora, I know you were not,” he also semi-repeated, this time softly but also firmly, that tender look back in his eyes

I sed

It was Tor’s way of apologizing And it was a good way

Then I decided I’d had enough I couldn’t take et to me and he couldn’t What he did hurt, tooinin his It was unnatural and anything could happen Nature had a way of righting itself, so hiet in return

And I loved it

But it could be taken from me He could be taken from me At any moment a blue et I had to sort outto be hard with a seasoned warrior obviously intent on laying siege to it

But I had to try

“Do you want to watch TV?” I asked into the void, his eyes flashed his displeasure at e of subject then they settled

“Will you rest if atch this… TV?” he asked back and I nodded “Then yes, I’d like to watch TV”

I sucked in breath then turned, leaned down the couch, opened the drawer to rabbed the renored him as I switched channels until I found an innocuous sit-com Then I settled in, partly turned away fro after, I heard his plate hit the coffee table then the reers

My head twisted to him and I cried, “Hey!” but like a y, hitting buttons on the reed, the volu with a cop show

Figures

Then he taggedbeside hiainst the back of the couch, as he stretched out on his back, head to a pillow against the armrest

I pushed up and snapped, “I was comfortable”

“You’rethe God’s honest truth

“A up on his chest

“Cora, you are”

“Am not!”

The hand attached to his arm that ound around me slid up to the back of my neck and he pulled me inexorably forward until I was close to his face

“You promised, atch this TV, you’d rest,” he reminded lared at him Then I saw the determined look on his face

I knehat that ”

He chuckled and forced my cheek to his chest

I kept my body perfectly solid to communicate nonverbally that he was a jerk