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I blinked at the asshole who’d just ruined the best moment of my life.
And I didn’t hold myself back this time.
I leaped headfirst into the darkness I’d inherited.
With a sharply aimed punch to his jaw, I spun on my heel and kicked him square in the chest.
He soared backward, landing with a loud grunt.
Eyes fell on me.
Eyes that saw everything I was.
Eyes that could steal me from Neri and everything I wanted.
I wouldn’t let that happen.
Not now.
Snatching Neri by the wrist, I ran.
I pulled her tripping and gasping through the Craypot, fell out the door, and bolted down the street to where I’d parked her father’s Jeep.
Chapter Thirty-Two
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Aslan
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(Moon in Hindi: Chandrama)
“ASLAN...TALK TO ME.” NERI SAT BESIDE me as I fisted the steering wheel and chose different streets to avoid the breath testing roadblock.
“Aslan...? What...what was that back in there? You...you kissed me.” Rubbing her arms, she shook her head. “You kissed me and—” She cut herself off, touching her lips where I’d bruised her. “Did you kiss me just to stop that guy from being a dick? Did you mean to kiss me that roughly? Did you—”
“Not yet.” My foot wanted to stomp on the accelerator, but I forced myself to drive below the speed limit. No way would I risk being pulled over. Not when I was so close to figuring out how to live.
“Not yet? What does that mean?”
“It means...I don’t want to talk about it. Not yet.”
“I hate to tell you, but you can’t ignore this. You can’t send me a text pretending that kiss didn’t happen. You can’t try to gaslight me into believing it meant nothing when every part of me says it was—”
“Everything. It was everything. I know that.” I threw her a look before focusing back on the road. “It happened. I’m not going to deny it.”
“You’re not?” Her tone flirted with confused. “But...you haven’t so much as touched me this past year—”
“You’re with him.”
“Joel?”
My teeth ground to dust, unable to picture her lips—lips that tangled my stomach and fisted my heart—on another guy’s.
I nodded curtly.
A long pause before she whispered, “I broke up with him tonight.”
