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“I just want to say it I need for you to know everything”
So she gave in and sat on the sofa “All right”
He sat beside her carefully, as though unsure if she’d let him stay there “I woke up You were sound asleep—and I wanted a snack”
She realized she’d been staring straight ahead If he had to give her the details, she should at least look at him while he did it She faced him And her love for hireement to etting at?”
“That’s right It never occurred to me that she would be down there And she wasn’t, not at first I made toast And hot chocolate She came down just as I was about to carry my plate and cup to the table She said she couldn’t sleep I suggested hot ave me this intense look I knew then that there was trouble, that you’d been right when you said she” He hesitated, his expression pained “That she still had feelings for racefully—and you don’t have to give me that look”
“But I’m not—”
“Yes, you are Listen, I get it, all right? It was ht, it was ave otten the hell out fast She saidher off when I heard you behind me” He fell silent
What to say now? “Is that it?”
“That’s everything, yes”
“Then can we go to bed now?”
He only looked at her Deeply “You do blame me”
“No” And she didn’t, not really “But I didn’t like seeing that woman all over you I didn’t like it at all”
So her all over me I swear it I meant what I said I am, and alill be, true to you”
“Good” But she still felt put out with hi of Fiona, for soe reason—of the odd parallels between Fiona’s drunken behavior weeks ago and what Melinda had done an hour before The similarities see badly in the hts
“There’s so me What is it?” he demanded
It would have been so si, to soothe him—soothe them both—and take him to bed
But she knew there were truths about the night Edward died that he refused to share with her She knew that he lied to her by o seriously, she would have to live the rest of her life with the ie of Melinda spread all over the front of hiot her back up just enough that she went ahead and gave him exactly what he asked for