I’ve gotten to know this woman better than she’d like to admit. I know that it terrifies her to lose control. It terrifies her that I’ve seen through her armor, seen the actual person beneath. Now that she’s been exposed to me, she wants to clam up again. She wants to rebuild those walls. That’s fine . . . I’ll let her think that it’s working. That she’s still in control of this thing between us. And then, when the moment is right . . . I’m going to capture her again. I’m going to find her most vulnerable places, the cracks in her armor, and I’m going to split it wide open. I’m going to grab
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