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‘I know… I screwed it up,’ Rashad bit out jerkily

‘Maybe we both did,’ Polly e it takes two to screw up Whatever way you look at it, it’s a partnership’

‘No,’ Rashad disagreed ‘I didn’t allow us to be a partnership I have no experience of a s or s toa look at her froolden eyes ‘With you, s escape’

Polly studied hi it because she bled for hiorously disciplined to hold every feeling in, never allowed to be natural ‘That’s not necessarily a bad thing,’ she whispered shakily

‘It was a bad thing when I confronted you about your dinner with Rio,’ Rashad pointed out heavily ‘I was…irrational Rage engulfedhis co him You do not need to tell me that I’m too possessive of you… I know it I have never known such jealousy before and it ate me alive—’

‘Well,’ Pollya little closer because his sheer emotional intensity drew her like a flame on an icy day, ‘I understand a little better now But it upset me a lot that you seemed to distrust me—’

Rashad swung back to her, his stunning eyes bright with regret ‘But that is what is so illogical about it I do trust you and Rio is my best friend and I knoould not betray s overwhelmed me!’

Polly brushed his arers ‘Because you’re not used

to dealing with that kind of stuff You’re on a learning curve’

‘I hurt you If it hurts you I do not want to be on that curve,’ he breathed rawly

‘But not expressing what you feel ued

‘It won’t ever happen again,’ Rashad intoned ‘I will be on uard now’

‘But that’s not what I want,’ Polly admitted ruefully

‘I have kept tooover to the , deeply troubled by his sense of disloyalty to his first wife’sthat such honesty was necessary ‘My first e was very unhappy—’

‘But you said you loved her,’ Polly reminded him in complete surprise