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Andsmiling at him.
“I, I… You got me.”
It takes everything I have—all my energy, all of my theatrical skills honed in the courtroom—to force the huge sappy grin to my face. I almost can’t do it.
So instead of Hugo, I imagine it’s Hades who’s standing in front of me. I don’t even know if he’s alive or dead, butheis who I pretend I’m looking at when I look up into Hugo’s demented, frenzied eyes.
“I… I was wrong.”
He frowns. “What?”
“I’ve been so scared of my own feelings. So afraid of what they meant, and that they were too strong.”
His lips curl into a smile. “What are you saying?” he breathes.
“I’m saying… You’re my person. I….”
I swallow back poison and bile.
Pretend it’s Hades.
“I’ve always wanted you. Madly, to a truly crazy degree. I was just always so afraid of how big that felt inside.”
Hugo looks like he’s going to burst into tears again.
“Elsa,” he chokes. “That’s…poetry. It’sexactlyhow I feel, too!”
“It was meant to be,” I whisper. “Wewere meant to be. It’s why and how you found me again. To show me what true love is.”
He grins widely. “Fate, my love.”
I nod. “Yes, exactly. Fate.”
My eyes slip to Nora. Then back to him.
“I want to…to be with you, Hugo.”
He beams. “You do?”
I nod vigorously. “Yes.Yes.”
I swallow the bile down again, beckoning him closer. I shudder when his hands slide up my arms.
“What is it, my love?” he murmurs into my ear.
“I…Iwantyou. I want a real man, like you.”
He groans. “God, Elsa. I’ve waited so long to hear that from your lips.”
But Hugo, I….” I lock eyes with him, then flick them to Nora and back again. “Not with my sister in the house, you know?”
He grins.
“Can we have some privacy? So that you can show me what real pleasure is?”
He stares at me, his eyes bulging, his breath coming faster.
The seconds tick by.
