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But that wasn’t surprise

She was like a fucking statue I wasn’t even sure she was breathing, she was so still

“Sweetbea?” I said, pulling out of her gently

She didn’t acknowledge me or move from the position I’d put her in I kept a hand on her back as I stepped around the bed to see her face, and my stomach dropped as I took in her expression

I could hear my heartbeat in my ears

“Baby?”

Her eyes were squeezed tight and her jaas clenched as if she aiting for another blow

“Hey, hey,” I crooned, “Come here to me, Bea” I crouched by the side of the bed so I could put my face next to hers

Her eyes opened and almost immediately filled with tears

“I didn’t like that,” she whispered, the words shaet

“I won’t ever do it again,” I pro knot in ently up her back so I could sweep her sweaty hair from her face

She jerked towardher arms around ers dug into my skin as she shuddered, and I sed hard as I picked her up and carried her into our roohtly behind me

All the anger and frustration I’d carried withwrong There wasn’t any rooh me as she trembled

“Did I hurt you?” I asked as I cliainst my chest

“No”

“What was that, Bea?”

“I don’t know,” she answered shakily

Chapter 10

Trix

I didn’tI needed to get up soon, but as he left the bedroo me, I realized we both needed a little space

Caht before, but I couldn’t ease his mind because I didn’t understand it, either

Onewordlessly for Caive me that last push into oblivion, and the next it had been like my entire body shut down I was there, I could hear hi to me and felt him pull away, but I couldn’t move

It was that sound That godawful sound of fleshflesh

Our bodies slapped together on a regular basis, ely co Horrifying Nauseating I’d barely felt it when his palot lost in the way the rest of , but I hadn’t been able to escape that noise