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She frowned at me “What? Why would that be better?”

“Isn’t that supposed to help people when they are scared to talk in front of crowds or so the audience naked?”

She s the that way”

“True, but it would be weird to ask strangers to strip I, on the other hand, a to make that sacrifice”

She leaned over to kiss ness to help” Her smile faded “You promise you won’t leave me?”

“I’ anywhere”

She nodded The worry and fear of whatever she wanted to say was evident on her face She reached for ers withaway

“Sex was a require her attention on our joined hands

I already didn’t like the direction of this conversation, and I prayed I’d be able to keep my emotions in check hatever she was about to say

“He wasn’t alwaysI mean, he didn’t always force me, not in that way He would sometimes be romantic or—either way, I would respond, react”

She looked up atI did Thankful she didn’t want to go into tooabout her sex life with that bastard

Ginger pulled her hand free of mine and stood up She headed directly toward the bar I sed my objection as she pulled a bottle of vodka from the cabinet She didn’t pour a drink Instead, her hands wrapped around the neck of the bottle, strangling it

Getting up, I walked over to her and gently pried her fingers froed me, and buried her face in ain

“Things got more than a little warped in my head because of that I hated , I would still respond to his touch II started to think I was as twisted as he was, at least on so with a man like him?”

She paused to take a breath She looked up atto feel gross in your own skin, but that’s how I’ve felt for a long tiy, that ra told it’sher back to ain covered her face with her hands “God, I feel like such an idiot saying these things out loud”