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I am sick to death of lies. I would rather die than to listen to another single one.
And I think one more lie from her lips might actually kill me. After yesterday, I feel as raw as I’ve ever felt. The one thing I thought was real has just proven to be more myth than fact.
I place a hand on her head, run it around the delicate curve of her skull, sift my fingers through her thick, damp hair. I drag them across her chest skimming the edge of the towel she’s wrapped herself in and stop when I get to her heart.
“Do you know how much I love you?”
She looks up at me and nods, her lips are trembling, her eyes leaking the evidence of her distress.
“I was going to tell you.” Those words, the admission of her deceit, the sorrow in her eyes, the damage she’s done, what it means for us all come rushing at me and I know I need to get away from her before I say something I don’t mean. Something I can’t take back.
I stand up and step around her. She scrambles to her feet and grabs my arm.
“Please don’t go. Please let me explain.”
I turn to face her and avert my gaze, because I’m not sure I can take that look in her eyes right now.
“Are you going to tell me that you’re not here to write a story about me and my family?”
“No, but—”
“I would like you to go.”
Her face crumbles. “Remi, you don’t mean that. I know this sounds bad, but—”
“Yeah, Kal, it sounds bad,” I say and I walk over to the door and open it.
“Leave, please.” I am struggling to keep my temper in check.
“If you want me to leave this bedroom, you will have to carry me out of here.” She tilts her chin at me, daring me to do it. Oh.
“I’ve treated you with the gentlest of kid gloves. But don’t forget who I am.” In the storm of my hurt and anger, I do the stupidest things I’ve ever done in my entire life.
I throw her over my shoulder and start toward the door.
“Remi, what are you doing?” she shrieks as I throw her over my shoulder. “You cannot put me out. Not without hearing me out.”
“I can. And I fucking will,” I grate out and open the door and set her on her feet in the hallway. And then, I see that she’s wet, barefoot, and in her towel. Her eyes are wide with terror. Her lips are trembling.
And I’m slammed backward in time to the night of the Annual Gala.
She had that same look on her face. I remember her dignity, and things that once said and done, can never be taken back.
Oh my God. My anger comes crashing down.
I made her look like that. Again. God, thi
s is a nightmare.
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NOT ENOUGH
KAL
I watch as Remi comes to his senses. He steps aside and I walk past him stonily. I throw my towel on the bed and rush around the room throwing things haphazardly into my suitcase.
I tense, pause for a minute, but don’t look up when he comes to stand next to me. My heart is racing, my pulse beating at a million miles an hour. I’m so angry I can’t speak. I can’t believe what he just did.
