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He looked like he’d just stifled a wince "Then thatyou I don’t want my past to taint you"

"Taint? Because I was so wholeso this way When I went online to order my ‘arsenal,’ do you think I didn’t es on the site, the ones with braided black leather and shining silver chains? I was already curious"

For the first time, doubt flickered in his expression Hope?

I pressed ht Maybe deep down you sensed it in me from the very start"

He shook his head hard "This can’t be I don’t want to discuss it further--"

"Shut up and listen toto meet me halfway Do you think I’ about?"

"What you described as a sicknessyou can’t suppress so like that forever You already threatened to find another woet your ith me Since you refuse to see o to another to have those needs fulfilled"

With a sharp shake of his head, he grabbed my arms, about to speak, but I cut hio to another too?"

He released renade With a vile curse, he turned toward the door

On his way out, hter punched a hole in the wall

A lone, still pissed, I’d gotten myself dressed, then picked at soe Afterward, I’d called Jess--who’d been hungover and out of it So I’d made my way into the panic room to idly survey pedestrians for mindless hours

Or, more honestly, to wait for Sevastyan’s return like a sap What if he had gone to another wo her with that conificent body?

My eyes watered I could get past anything, but not infidelity, not when I’d all but begged him not to do it--

I jerked up in h ift-wrapped package

He’d been out getting me a present? My emotions spun wildly in the other direction Giddiness Glee

As if he kneatching hilanced up at the camera as he set the box down on the counter The look in his eyes was filled arning And ain