a's
arage to our bedroom, Step
ed all evening, as though I had done nothing except sit there quietly and
later, my
sent over a file t
ed it
had studied nursing at a community college, but dropped out before finishing, choosing instead to work as a jewelry sales assistant in order to es
de me feel someth
did
t rea
r a girl like her to resist. The gifts had come first, then the flowers, then the carefully timed concern, the kind of tendern
note beneath
a wedding band recently removed. If she did, she chose not to ask. Instead, the repor
he k
. Maybe not the whol
otsteps outside the room, light but f
d later, carrying a
e drink this while it's warm. Alpha
esitation, my fingers st
ot," I said. "I'l
almost imperceptibly. "
," I pr
lf a second longer,
bathroom, and poured every drop into the toilet. The amber liquid disapp
by Stephen now mad
ld myself, tomorro
warm enough to ca
awn to the weight of an
ented second,
scent r
store, the perfume lingering in the air long after she stepped away f
y went
with the easy possession of a man who thought he still had every right to touch me,
he tightened his hold
urmured, his voice s
face him, the words alrea
shoul
d beside my head as he pinned me into the mattress with a
"Or were you awake all this time be
down on mine bef
st his chest.
o look down at me, desire still
before I could speak,
's me. Are you here alrea
ast Stephen and
s no warmth in it now, only irritation, suspi
s early?" he asked. "T
at him. "It's late enough for you to
rd me again. "I told Enzo to clear my schedul
need yo
oice should have bee
st from behind, pressing a trail of soft kisses along my neck as if te
uppy," he murmured against my sk
e second, I cou
me and shoved him a
aking fury for flirtation, resista
my chin and k
letting
r this time, stripped of everyth
must finally have reached h
ether. For the first time that mornin
slowly, "what's
any longer and straightened my clothes
driver I called is downstairs.
ad already invited the m
pboard awkwardly against his chest. "Are you
rd the staircase. "C
m to the
chest, every trace of sleep gone from his face. His gaze landed on
n?" he said co
tered at once and looke
I said before Stephe
pened the doors wide, and poin
. "Can you weig
he room went co
sealed boxes on the floor, and something in his face change
w, more dangerous for how controlle
the boxes wit
pened. "Why ar
said n
two steps, caught my shoulders in b
oothness gone now, replaced by something r
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