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Drax reached out his hand to touch her, and immediately she cowered away from him, her eyes bleak with pain

‘What are you doing here? Why did you come after me?’

‘Because I had no choice I love you, Sadie You are my life and—’

‘No’ How dared he lie to her like this when she knew the truth? How dared he look at her with a pain in his gaze that said she was more precious to him than life itself?

She started to laugh, almost hysterically

‘Yes!’ he insisted But Sadie shook her head

‘You’re lying You don’t loveyou said aboutme’ She made herself say the horrible words and endure the poison of their taste ‘I won’t let you do that to me, Drax I’d rather die,’ she said wildly ‘I won’t let you abuse me like that’

‘Was that why you left the camp?’ Drax demanded

‘You didn’t think I’d stay, did you, after hearing so like that?’

Sadie gasped as the wind howled and screa it to rock from side to side

‘Sadie, it isn’t as it seems’

‘How can it not be? I heard you’

‘I know you did, but…’ Drax cursed under his breath as he fought to control the vehicle ‘I love you, Sadie’

‘Don’t say that! You’re lying’

‘No, I’ to Vere was—’