Contractually Yours (The Lasker Brothers, #4)
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If I hadn’t told her I needed somebody to hold me, she might’ve driven
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to Preston’s place and run him over with her car. Which would’ve been a shame. She just bought her dream car—a pretty silver
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Mercedes coupe—and getting blood all over it would ha...
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He wouldn’t be the first person to humiliate me.
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But this marriage with Sebastian? He can’t hide how much he hates me. Although he’s been polite
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and considerate in public, I have no clue what he’s going to be like in private, when it’s just the two of us sharing the same home.
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I feel shaky, like I’m stepping onto a frozen lake. It’s murky under the ice, and I don’t know how thin that ice is going
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to be.
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His offer to pay for plastic surgery—if I ever feel the need—is a bit off the wall, but endearing in an odd way.
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he just grins like some cocaine-addled idiot.
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the truth isn’t important. The only thing that matters is what
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people presume is the truth.
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But if that’s what he wanted, why did he have to be kind? Why did he have to
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make me think he cared? Why did he have to make me want more?
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Of all the betrayals of my
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life, his is the hatchet that cleaves my soul.
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The pain robs my lungs of air, my m...
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The light in her eyes dies and the smile goes frozen, then slowly vanishes.
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She isn’t crying because she’s too much in pain.
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She isn’t crying because she believes
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she’s truly...
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“I think it’s about what’s to come. There’s a peculiar kind of relief that you get after a violent storm,”
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“Wouldn’t a violent storm leave destruction behind?” “Probably. But the air is clearer. And whoever is still alive has gained a little bit of confidence
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that they can survive something else like it in the future.”