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"What are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb. You know exactly what I'm talking about," he spits out. His hand shoots out to grab my arm and he pulls me closer—close enough the I can see the deep scorn marring his features.
"My God, how can you be such a hypocrite? I told you about that flashback. I told you I thought a woman had raped me. How the fuck could you look at me straight in the eye and tell me it was all a nightmare, that it wasn't real? How could you look at me and pretend everything was ok when all along it wasyou," he grits out, his voice breaking just as he's breaking my heart.
"It wasn't like that. Let me explain, please," I beg.
"Explain what? Rape?"
"I know it may seem like that but…"
"But what?" He raises his brows. "You didn't mount me when I was unconscious? You didn't fuck yourself on me when I was so full of drugs I could barely move? When I was a prisoner in my fucking body?"
"Yes, but…" I stumble over my words, panic suffusing my entire being.
This can't be real.
My heart is pounding, my breathing out of control as a dense fog takes over my mind.
This can't be real.
His fingers dig in my arm as he shakes me.
"Yes, but what Noelle?" he snarls at me, holding me so close I can barely think.
All I can see is his rabid expression and the way disappointment ravages his features, his eyes dead as he sets them on me.
Dead.
There's nothing there. No love, no gentleness. Nothing.
And it's just what I deserve. Yet it should have never happened like this.
But because it did happen,now, I know there is only one culprit at play. Only one person who could have told him the truth.
Michele.
"How many times? How many times did you take advantage of me when I was at my lowest?" he continues with his barrage of question, his hold bruising.
"It wasn't like that," I shake my head. "Please let me explain, Raf. Hear me out, please," I plead with him, but he's not listening—he's beyond listening.
"It wasn't enough that you raped me, though, was it? You used me for something else. For something…" he chokes on the words, his façade breaking to show me all the hurt within.
HurtIcaused.
God, but I feel his pain as my own and it's fucking suffocating me.
Tears gather at the corners of my eyes as I bring a hand up, touching his cheek.
"Please, Raf. Let's calm down and I'll tell you everything, ok?" I suggest softly.
There's a pause as he looks me in the eye—really looks me in the eye.
But what I see there ends me—it fucking obliterates me.
"More lies, Noelle? Is that what you're going to tell me?" He slaps my hand aside.
"No. I promise I'll give you the truth and only the truth. Just please…"
