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The same way he touched me

I aze back tohe had just scored a point off ht have made a direct hit, but it didn’t have the power to make me come back to his house It didn’t have the mojo to kill what I felt for Matt Even if it did feel like being stung to death by a swarry wasps

“That was in the past,” I said in a voice devoid of all e “It’s none of my business”

So what if Matt had said that, to him, it was like ere never separated, that the ti? That I had always been his and he had always—always, damn it—been mine

So what if I was slowly bleeding to death thinking of hione Was she the only one? I knehat kind of kink the other girl was into She and her friend Casandra loved threesoether?

I gave myself a mental bitch slap Stop it, Rory Just stop it

My father’s hands balled

into fists on top of his desk, the knuckles turning white “I’ll have the boy arrested for rape, Rory”

I rolled my eyes at the same old threat he had always held over es that are in your pocket will be willing to let a case that has no DNA or witnesses go to trial Because I’ainst him”

Beforeinside ofto have hihter? Stephanie here has been waiting years to come forward about her own experience with Matt Reid”

“That’s a lie”

“I have pictures of her from where she was beaten” Royce Ca “She and Casandra will both testify that he raped the brothers drop the friends”

“It’s a lie!” I snarled at him, but inside I didn’t knohat to believe

“Is it, though?” He grinned, enjoying having ht where he and my father wanted me “How do you know for sure?”

“Because I know Matt He would never hurt a woman Never raise a hand to her and never, not ever, violate her”