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“That’s good Me either,” she said, a blush creeping into her cheeks After everything we’d done, hell everything we’d do tonight, it was cute that she could still get embarrassed

“And I’ to worry about But she was expertly unravelling me She’d turned htened and the walls began to close in as I realized how h her hair, and go to sleep That was all I wanted The burning fire that pusheddown It was slowly being extinguished by her

“I need to go” I grabbed my suit jacket that laid on the chair by the door and opened the door That couldn’t happen This wasn’t real to her She lived in this fake world she’d constructed for herself with nice stand ins like o back to her life with people like her

“Killian, wait,” she called after ?”

“I need to go”

“Why? Stay We were having a good ti tone blared in the otherwise silent rootone

She glanced back over her shoulder at the phone, its glowing screen lighting up the room like a beacon

“You should get that, never knoho your boss will need you to do next,” I bit out The veno over to her She dropped my arm and stepped back like I’d smacked her

“Rachel…,” I said, taking a step forward, but she held her hand out in front of her, stopping me in my tracks

“No, I think you’re right You should go”

RACHEL

That wasn’t how I thought things would go Things had been going so well He opened upme in so many ways Made me surprise myself, and then it all fell apart For so e had was real

Tears pooled in my eyes as I laid in ht in my chest as I tried to calm et caught up in hi other than a passing fancy How many women had he slept with in that sex club room?

II banged ainst the bed So stupid

Dahlia snuck in well into the early hours of theon She’d had a successful show, I’d had a great evening until Killian lost it