Virgin And Broken Daddy

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d me like a shiver from a past I have spent years trying to forget. The same air I breathed i

ust shattered promise

me from the world below increases. Though my face is an impervious mask, my hands feel clammy. Here there i

hat is what I

the elevator chimes. I chew hard, iron still tasting in my mouth. On the other hand, I'm n

eeply and o

mes the view of the city below. He hasn't seen me yet; f

mo

d more difficult is the man before me. He has on a suit that exudes authority and control. Though he

y. I experienced the same thing the first time I saw him-ev

el rubbing against the inside of my

breathless sigh; I want to say something cutting, some

rd, my eyes fixed on his broad back, the way h

to meet my eyes. He takes me in like I'm a ghost fro

an practically picture walls rising around him. Still, it is

"After you wrecked everything I ever owned, you hardly bothered to call me. You basicall

There is just stillness between us-t

xity. Why am I back? He asks. Why, after all, have I returned? H

ruth is really

re to make you pay," the w

ing I cannot really identify. Surprise

ow, sinister. "For what, Evelyn?"

opelled me for so long. The same resentment that keeps me awak

my hand. My family, my tomorrow, my confidenc

or the first time in years. I spent so long acting as though I didn't

se, his expression is incomprehensible. Now that I can feel his

wl, threatening. "You think you could waltz in here following everything,

l this, doesn't get me to doubt myself. But beneath the surface is another

he need to get his arms around me once more, the way they used to embrace me so tightly, so possessivel

back off to leave

r something

darkened with mistrust. "W

destroy y

his face. In regret? suffering But it's gone quickly, replaced by th

g, Evelyn," Damon adds, his voice now sharp. But you are run

ng at my lips is

not," I say

breaking, much like it did in me all those years ago, I turn

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alm on th

he continues. "You believe you alone have been brok

if I do will cause me to lose wha

ontinue, voice calm. Here I am

s office, behin

he will be returni

or and the doors close behind me. Pulling it out, I d

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