This was so bloody wrong – all of it – still I gave myself a second to sink into his grip. “This is why last night should never have happened.” Backing up, I swiped at my face again. “Between Alistair and Heather, it’s too complicated.” “It doesn’t have to be.” He made it sound so easy. “Alistair—” “Alistair is a fucking idiot.” He was before me in a heartbeat, his own breathing erratic as he hissed, “It’s what I think now and it’s what I told him then. He could have had—” He shook his head, pupils blown as he looked at me with a fierceness that raked like claws across my heart. “He never
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