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He seemed to sense that I’d come out of it because he held“Why don’t you hateI’ve done to you I don’t understand Why do you loveme like that?”

“Why did you risk your life to save my children?” He squeezed me and kissed my brow, and I felt warm all over “Why did you run out there that day when she could’ve just as easily had run you over as she didto say that wouldn’t give too much away

“Why did you do that for ato gain?” Gain? What does hehi hiue, too uilt

“Why did you cootten you? I didn’t even want you here, where was your pride? Why were you such a fool as to let yourself be used? I didn’t even reht”

More hurtful words to get a rise out of uilt he now feels, it’s hues, I can see every move he’s about to make before he even says it

“And why didn’t you re to add to your little book of secrets?” I stiffened in his arms How does he know about that?

“Yeah, your mother told me all about it Am I in there, Jenny? She says she never read it, that you don’t even know she knows it exists So how about it, huh? Did you write about how hot you were fornot to care? Where is it, I wanna see…?”

I jumped off his lap with my fists folded and ain?” I wanted to rant and rave at hi someone else, someone who, as it turns out, wasn’t worthy of him

But I knew that argument had no real steam; that it was only in my head that he, and I ever coexisted and he could not be bla that I was so to let him see me like that It’s not fair “Do you really think I acted that way because I was stupid or some kind of doormat?”

“I did it because it was the right thing to do I wouldn’t have wanted you to have an affair with me while you were still married to her, I would spend the rest of my life worried about when you’d do the same to me”

“As to why I ca, I couldn’t stay away, I was dying for the sight of you after all these years And sure, it cut like ten knives when you looked right throughaboutjerk”

He jurab me when I turned to walk away I couldn’t let hi hi to skin et back home

“Where do you think you’re going?” He wrapped his arle My heart was beating so hard I was sure he could hear it, and h my bra

He acts like it’s a big deal now that he’d re it every second of every day for alht of your life when you knorong, but you can’t bring yourself to condemn it

“Didn’t you just say you didn’t wantyou what you want Bye, Mr Masters” I waved my hand over my shoulder in his face, ready to burst with excitement I wanted to ju et

I tried pulling htened his hold “Settle your ass down, Jenny You still have a lot to answer for so don’t take that tone with me”