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Sandor stared down at the pictures of Ellie and the other otten the photos, he’d looked at the and then he’d refused to look at thees off his computer after he printed them off, but he hadn’t

Then he’d gone to Ellie’s and told her it was over And now he sat like aat the pictures in obsessive, meticulous detail Ellie looked thinner in the pictures, but that wasn’t right Wasn’t the ca different about her eyebrows

He tried to think back to when he’d met with her earlier Had she looked any different? He couldn’t remember He’d been upset, damn it

He didn’t like ad that any more than he liked the fact that he couldn’t seem to look away from the pictures of his woed to hione to bed with another s when he’d walked out of her apartreed to it

His pride had It had demanded he leave rather than push for explanations she was unwilling to give Not that any explanation couldto knohat she’d been thinking For wanting tounderstand

Only he couldn’t get past one salient fact She’d come home prepared to marryhim Why? Why, if she wanted to have sex with anotherto marry him? He kneasn’t the s did not hold sway for Ellie Or so he had believed

But he had also believed her incapable of infidelity

They were not married yet, but once she had taken hied to hihts of her with another e He should not feel like this If she wanted someone else, he should be able to deal with that the sah

But he’d told her their relationship was not a business deal And it wasn’t It was more, damn it

He stared down at the picture again Why did his instincts keep telling hiht about the photos? Obviously he didn’t want to see his wo

He stared at the one of the woman on the beach Was it a trick of the caht it did?

His phone rang and he picked it up “Christofides”

“Sandor, it’s Hawk”

“Yes?”

“I just had a strange phone call from your fiancée”

“We aren’t engaged” Saying the words out loudthe reaction

“That’s what she said”

“Was she angry with you?”