Eyes ablaze, his head cocked to the side, and he continued to hold onto my elbow like I might suddenly disappear. “You think any of those women could ever be more important than you?” My chest nearly caved with all the times he’d hurt me doing just that. A sharp blade dragged across my flesh every time we’d been at a bar, and he’d walked out with someone else. “More than that, you think I’ve ever brought one of them here?” A scoff quivered free. “I might not know where you spend your time, Ryder, but I know how you spend it.” There was no keeping the hurt out of it. No faking it. A
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