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The comforter gets loosened on my shoulders, eventually falling to the floor behind me, and I walk through the now familiar halls again in nothing but my underwear to consider my options. Left or right? Forward or back? Stay or go? Maybe I should stay, have more men so I can banish these bruises and find new ones to temper these current ones down. That might work. I could stay and fuck him out of me, evolve passed him just as I did passed Rick.
Not sure.
I want my answers, though. I do. I want to stand in front of him and find out things he wouldn’t tell me, and maybe then I can accept the fact that his chain is no longer around my wrist and his body is no longer next to me.
“Are you ready to play a new game?” Malachi asks from somewhere.
I stop at the entrance to the old library and look over the grand piano, thinking about those words and his idea of games.Malachi says.I’m not high now, though. I’m alive and breathing and remembering everything. Every touch, every smell, every nuance of his face.
Games? This isn’t a game. This is real. Actual reality, irrespective of these walls or this castle or the dark, murky time we’ve shared. My Gray is real. The feeling on my skin because of him is real, and the feeling in my aching heart because of our time is real.
This man behind me knows that as well as I do.
“What’s the game, Malachi?” I murmur.
“Hunt the truth, Hannah,” he says. “Seek and you will find.” I turn to look at him and find him smiling, his hand reaching for mine to lead me somewhere. “Better to go too far than not far enough.” I nod, understanding those words now.
Not far enough is never enough.
And this sounds like a game I want to play.
