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"But I don’t want Daniel!" I screah his icy deh the yard, out through the trees and dunes, and the tall grasses that bob and bend as the sharp breeze whips around us I stand there, shaking, in agony If he could only listen to me! If he would only understand!

But Emerson doesn’t flinch, and when he looks back at me, his eyes are dead behind those velvet lashes, so cold in the way I’ve only ever seen once before

The last ti around ain," I whisper, gripped with a dread so cold I can’t feelit"

Emerson’s jaw is clenched with tension, but his posture is casual I think I see soain Deter, so relaxed that it breaks my heart clean in two

"Why not?" He says coolly, like it’s all just a gaured, this was just a one-ti smirk "Onesense of déjà vu "You don’t mean that," I shakeit, but it’s not true!"

"Sure it is" Eaze head-on: eri you put up a fight, trying to be a good little girl I bet Garrett a hundred bucks I could get you out of those panties in a asp "That’s a lie!" I protest wildly He keeps approaching ainst the truck

E path along ive me a run for my money, but you were so hot for "

"Stop it," I sob, pushing his hands away I can’t believe what he’s saying, or the cruel smirk in his smile This isn’t my Emerson, it can’t be!

"What? You don’t want"That’s not what you said last night" His voice drops, and he leans in closer, breath hot againstme to fk you harder Don’t you remember?"

I choke back a sob as he reaches to caresstears floet down htens with desire I hate h my body, how my breath quickens just to feel his body close, and ainst his chest

"See?" Emerson whispers triumphantly, and I realize with a flush of sha down at o another round" he sht even tie you down and let you suckuncontrollably now, drowning in pain and humiliation It all ht welot at Jimmy’s, he taunted , I realize, with sickening dread I was only ever a game to him, a twisted fk-you to our former love