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't move. He di

my woman," he said, his

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ffed, lifting her tea

emotions she had been holding in for

er voice trembling with anger and de

at her sides, her e

shed forward. "Why were you with her? Why did you

silence settle

arrowed slightly

nged tense glances, bu

wasn't

pain. "And I had to stand there and watch. What was different about her? Was it the wa

in, and fresh tears s

ing. I did things in the bedroom I never even imagined doin

emained

as if to speak, bu

y. No excuse. No justification. No re

y breath, but her ha

t, her voice barely above a whispe

ntly, the weight of her

e, her voice filled with desperation. "You said I'm your

e couch and hurled it at him

Why?!

eavier, her bre

tand back any long

now," he said, his voice firm but gentle. "Cal

atching the scene unfold w

e ch

t confused Desmond was why Edlyn had taken it so hard-why she h

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ickered bac

avis had not

se he

oken something he

h, shaking her head as fres

ce hollow. "How you threw away ten years. A whole deca

flin

shaky breath, he

ou were my everything for the past decade. My mornings started with you, my nig

but she forced he

Shawn exists because

like poison on

ense of self. You were the reason I woke up in the mo

er bitter chuckle

Her eyes lifted to meet his

owned, c

she was speaking to herself. "Just... human. And me? I was stupid. Stupi

d down her face,

e," she muttered, laughing bitterly.

into suffoca

ne s

ne m

d back to Davis, her expression

with something betwee

you saved me?!

through the roo

mall step back

demanded, her breathing uneven

le

he way her body shook with exhaustio

first time, loo

this broken, devastated woman-wasn

be, jus

inally l

gh. His face twisted into something that almost resembled regret, b

d, his voice low but firm.

fingers curling into the fab

. a part of a

ent comple

leb and Elliot exchanged looks, a silent understanding

y oblivious to the disgust

to swallow. He took a small step toward her, reaching out. "She was just a casual thing. T

le

nce that made the a

nuinely baffled. T

is breath, shaking hi

business, couldn't stop the sheer wave of secondhand embar

e other hand

her lips. Not a single

hat was worse

first time sin

even look h