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I curled over and gripped ht around od, it couldn’t It wasn’t enough I was unraveling at the sea apart
It would never be enough
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Scarlett
March 14
I’d been watching Derek’s face for the past four and a half hours It was a strange thing, terribly intimate to watch a person sleep
His features were siven him a brief reprieve Every once in a while, his brow had furrowed and I wondered as going on his mind Had the stresses of our escape tried to seep back in and tarnish the few hours of rest he’d allotted himself?
I felt the fierce need to chase the more than lie here and make evil faces at the invisible demons that disturbed his sleep Derek needed this rest Desperately Aside froiven into, pulled off in the brush by the side of the road, he’d been awake for three days straight His weariness had been evident in the rings that underscored his eyes, but he’d refused to relent He’d driven through one city and town after another as if the hounds of hell were nipping at our heels
I had to believe they weren’t That ere safe He’d killed the est threat and ere miles away before anyone could possibly have noticed ere h, and it was only after I’d worked up the nerve to start nagging hireed to a brief stop at the moteloccupied
His brow furrowed again, and I reached out to sertips But ers hovered a hair’s breadth away—just like each ti difficulty findingthat we’d become
It had all seemed so simple when he’d been inside s for hi behind the weeks spent in my prison had proven difficult I had no idea what Derek expected from me now, and admittedly, I was more than a little afraid to ask
I’d been so certain then—certain that he felt the sas for rew Could I touch hiirl in her prison who did what she was told and didn’t make decisions for herself? I wanted to be more to him than a mindless slave, but if I pushed too hard, would he drop me off on the side of the road and drive away?
I couldn’t deny that it wasn’t only Derek I was having a difficult ti out An equally difficult question—as it I wanted? I liked the confidence, the dominant authority that seemed to seep fronited a fire between hs Did that mean I wanted hiht, but nothing did