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And I watched it.
You changed after that. You started doing martial arts with your dad. It’s like he wanted you to learn to fight back too.
But it didn’t stop those two assholes.
TJ and Gentry.
I knew they were after you.
So that made them come after me too.
But that night.
It wasn’t just TJ and Gentry.
I don’t know who the third guy was, but he drove the car. You never saw him, and I didn’t recognize him either. But I can’t forget the tattoo on his forearm. His right one. It’s the mudflap girl you see on trucks.
He was the worst one. Bigger and older. He’s why I can’t hear so good out of my right ear. He punched it so hard it bled and rang for weeks.
Fuck, my hand’s shaking. I gotta stop.
I’m not doing this. I’m not remembering more.
I told you enough last night, and now you’re giving us a chance, and I’m not ruining it.
We’re going to be happy now.
I’m going to spoil you, Magnolia Cade Bryant.
I know what to do, where to go, and everything so that I can prove it.
How much I’m gonna love you ’til I die.
CHAPTER TWENTY
An emptiness greets me when I get home. I hear nothing. My place is spotless.
“Hello?”
Silence.
It drops my nervous heart, and my logic fears the worst.
He left again. He got jealous about Jameson.
Last night, we were too intimate. It was too intense.
Me falling asleep in his arms? It reminded him of all we lost.
I’m fooling myself. Redix and I walk a fine line between desire and disaster, and he’ll always run. He’ll always leave. He can’t take it.
Can I?
Our love is a tightrope over hell. I teeter on it, walking down my hallway with a familiar ache threatening my chest.
My bedroom door is closed. Pushing it open, my heart leaps.
My Léger purple dress is on the bed; my Louboutin heels are placed on the floor. He didn’t leave.
