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“Will you pledge to leave him? Get out while you still can?”
She sighed, knowing she was defeated. “I… I can’t.”
“Then more time won’t change anything, however much you try to tell yourself it might.”
There was something dark in his voice, something that made her think he wasn’t talking about her and Primo at all.
“You’re a cold-hearted bastard,” she said.
A sad smile touched his lips. “That would be the least of it.”
“I hope he ruins you.” She hated how much she didn’t mean it, but reminding herself that he was Primo’s enemy — and therefore hers — was all she had.
“And I hope he doesn’t do the same to you,” he said quietly.
She turned away, hurrying for the door, desperate to get away from him. From everything he called up in her and every lie he wouldn’t allow her to tell herself
