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This got his attention His gaze connected with hers, sending a jolt of awareness zinging through her body, but she refused to acknowledge it Not now Not like this

“What about me?” His tone was cool and distant

“I want to knohy you’ve been acting different since we slept together—like we’re strangers”

For a moment there was some sort of emotion in his eyes, but in a blink it was shuttered behind a wall of indifference “I don’t knohat you mean”

Her back teeth ground together He wasn’t going to do this to her During the years of caring for herto keep a roof over their heads, fighting to have herto h it all, she’d learned how to speak up and not back down

Frustration bubbled up within her “Don’t do this Talk to ht we both wanted that night Didn’t we?”

He continued to stare at her If he thought she was going to turn away, he had another think co She was the best starer in her primary school

Then he let out a breath His shoulders lowered just a bit, as though what had been holding him up had escaped in that breath “I don’t knohat you want from me”

“How about the truth? Why have you been avoiding me?”

The silence returned It dragged on so long that she was pretty certain he was never going to answer her—never going to tell her what she’d done wrong

“Why didn’t you tell me?” There was a note of accusation in his tone

“Tell you?” She had no idea what he was talking about “Tell you what?”

“That you wereyou know”

“No, I don’t know Tell me”

His ether into a forin”