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“You keep adding that bit on You’re not going to forget that I want you anytime soon”

“I will, believeon, do you want to have sex with me?” The toilet flushed and he turned around to see her washing her hands in the sink There was no handle towel so she flicked her hands in the sink before putting them by her sides to dry

“Yes, I want to fuck you, really bad”

“Oh, then I don’t think you should be here while I’ a bath”

“Tough You see, I think you don’t understand how this works, Tulip You’re mine I don’t knohat the fuck that er than…” He stopped

“Stronger than what?”

He stared at her The words he was going to say weren’t ones he wanted to admit

“Stronger than your feelings for her…? Is that it? You wantto say?”

“Get in the tub” He leaned down and started to run her a bath There was some bubble bath that Jade used He rarely had the luxury of taking a bath The thought of lingering on anything too long was too much

“Do you miss her?” Tulip asked

This was a hard subject

In the past couple of hours, his thoughts about Sarah had di He had to actively think of her Guilt rushed through him

He’d picked Sarah but she had never made him feel this way There was no way Tulip was second best, surely One look at Tulip and seeing the vulnerability in her eyes tore hi care of her

“Yes,” he said The lie fell easily from his lips He didn’t knohen it happened but he’d stopped o

“Oh”