“I used to look at you and feel so free. I used to feel safe, baby,” she admitted, watching his eyes glaze at her trembling lips. The vulnerable Tahli he’d once owned. The only man to unlock that part of her. She was still waiting for him to blink. “Now... Every time I look at you, I can’t help but remember how happy you made me all these years and how good you were to me. Then I wonder if that was only the case because you were living this whole other fucking life I knew nothing about.”

