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When I start e of insanity, and we co as we cry out in release And when I finally collapse on top of her, I do it knowing I gave her everything I’m able to just now

I also know it’s not enough She deserves so much more

Chapter Eleven

Samantha

Our last week together alet as much of him as I can Our sex life, which was already active, becoet As the days tick by, I feel dread settling into my stomach

How a to exist after Dante?

I push the thought away, over and over again, because it’s a pointless question I’ to exist because I have to, because heto make the most of it

It’s our last night together, and we spend it the e began this whole thing: with ht old silk shi in the emptiness

All of my other clothes have been packed away, shipped off to my apartment

At ht, this is over The contract ends, the money is released into my account Done

The emptiness around me matches my mood I feel lost, like I don’t knohat’s real and what’s not, and I don’t knohere I fit into the world anyo back to ht? I’m not the same anymore I’ve fallen in love with a iven his for hi He knows my body better than anyone else ever will

No, I’irl alked into the Calla Club aand, in her innocence, still believing in happily ever after, is gone She disappeared in a flurry of lust-filled nights in Dante’s arht up in Dante’s world

And now I’o back to my life like none of it ever happened?

My stomach has been in knots since I fell asleep in Dante’s arht

He hasn’t asked me to stay