, and stalked toward her. "What was tha
ments deliberate. "I was just giving you a t
s voice bouncing off the high ceilings. "In
angerously quiet. "Insulting yo
urged again. He grabbed her by the shoulders, h
of fear in her gaze seemed to unnerve him more than any fight would have. He let her go
thed. He turned on his heel and stormed down the hall to the guest bedroo
e that had carried her through the evening drained away, leaving behind a bone-deep exhaustion. But beneath th
re Harris had grabbed her. Methodically, she took out her phone and photographed each one, the images timestamped and automatically uploaded to her secure cloud. Leighton had t
uddering breath. Then she straightene
n the same house but moved in different orbits, never speaking,
out the window for hours. She picked at her food, pushing it around her plate until it grew cold.
r her, reported everything to
ed sense of satisfaction. He believed he had broken her. His coldne
Harris emerged from the guest room. He pushed open
in a troubled sleep. A single, glisteni
ossessive sort of pity. She still loved him. This was
beside her. He wrapped an arm around her
sleep, tensed instinctively. It was a p
ips close to her ear. "Don't," he whispe
ardon, a king forgiving a foolish
orced her body to relax, to go limp in
p of her head. "I know you only did it because you care so much," he mur
"This weekend, we're going to the Hamptons. Just the tw
question. It
ug her fingernails into her own palms, the sh
nt, sleepy-soundi
oser. He was asleep within minut
is embrace, staring at the ce
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