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“You could have just told me when I first asked—”
“It’s none of your fucking business!”
She jerked back. This was the first time she’d ever seen me get angry, and she clearly wasn’t prepared for it.
“You’re a goddamn whore. I pay you to fuck me—and that’s it. Period.”
Her palm flew through the air and hit me hard in the face. It wasn’t as much of a slap as an open-palm punch. “Fuck you, Grave.”
11
CAMILLE
I opened the door to Grave on the doorstep. It was raining, so his shoulders were sprinkled with raindrops. His hair was a little damp from his walk from the car to my threshold. His eyes showed his foul mood.
I already knew what this was about. “She wouldn’t stop asking me…”
Grave let himself inside without waiting for an invitation.
“I didn’t tell her all the other stuff, like Italy and the necklace.”
“Doesn’t matter because I told her.” He looked around for somewhere to sit and realized it was just an air mattress on the floor with rumpled sheets and a plastic armchair beside it. “No furniture yet?”
“They said it’ll take a couple weeks.”
He took a look around before he faced me again.
“What did she say?”
He gave a subtle shrug. “Nothing, really. But we’re done.”
“Why?”
“I don’t fucking know. She thinks I’m still into you—even though I’ve told her I’m not. I don’t see what goddamn difference it makes anyway. Whether I still want you or not, who the fuck cares?” He walked around the empty living room, looking out the open windows to the rainfall outside.
He had no clue. “Grave?”
He watched the rain fall for a while longer before he looked at me again.
“You really don’t see it?”
“See what?” He walked toward me, hands in his pockets.
“The reason she cares so much is…because she’s in love with you.”
He gave no reaction whatsoever. “You’re wrong about that.”
“I’m not.”
“You’re wrong because she made it very clear it’s just an arrangement and she doesn’t want more. She made a whole fucking speech about it. Until her kids are out of the house, her dating life is on hold, and I respect her for it. So, you’re wrong, Camille.”
“Well, things change.” I’d gone to Cauldron for protection, but I ended up wanting a lot more. “I’m sure she didn’t want it to change. It was out of her control. How else can you explain her behavior? She’s jealous. She’s hurt. Because this relationship means something to her. It’s more than a job.”
He looked out the window again, as if to dismiss what I said.
“Do you feel the same way?”
He leaned against the wall and looked outside. “I don’t want to lose her.”
