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poised for Giana’s next words. “You’re going to pay for that.”
The shaky gulp she dragged in was flooded with the scent of
perfume and desire, dark secrets and darker anguish. It was all
Giana. Sinfully her. Exactly as Coralyn remembered breathing
her in before. She smelled the same, but she wasn’t the same
now. That Giana was probably the excavated one, the soul dug
out from the hard shell and all the debris and rocks and layers
or ruination.
Giana let the words sink in. Her mouth was so sensual, even
if she didn’t smile. Her cruelty, her secrets, the duality of
before and now, only added to her allure. Her eyes were
stormy and beautiful and wrecked. She was too serious. She’d
seen far too much, far too young.
“I need it,” Coralyn admitted, sacrificing herself right there,
slaying her pride. “You’re the only thing that’s made sense to
me since my mom died. The days I spent with you, that made
sense. Not every moment, but some of them. You came for me
when I needed you most. You held me. You didn’t let my feet
touch the earth.”
“And then I remembered, and I sent you crashing down, so
why are you really here?”
“You didn’t leave me all alone!” Was it so wrong to fight for
something that she really didn’t understand why she needed?
Wrong or right, it was the fight of her life. She’d lost so many
of those fights, but not this one. “You knew everything about
where I was. I know you had someone following me. The
same car drove past my apartment every half hour. I hid
behind the blinds and looked out and a guy had a camera
pointed right at my apartment. I wasn’t scared. I knew exactly
who sent him.”
