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He had no idea what I went through because I knew him, because the wrong person found out I knew him. I was here because of that sick and twisted someone.
And then, with words so soft that I’d never forget them, his face shuddered as he said, “Your parents were in an accident.”
There’s a pocket in your mind where you go when you feel unsafe, where you can’t handle whatever is happening in real life, and you lock yourself in there because you feel protected. Self-preservation.
“She’ll stay with me. I’ll drive her there.” I opened my mouth to argue, but no sound came out as Stone sent me a withering look. “All your shit’s already been moved.” Well. That shut me up.
It was my graduation one. He held it up. “You weren’t this thin when I left. What happened?” I lost thirty pounds that year. Pulling my gaze from it and back to his, I shrugged. “You know what happened that year.”
My arms gave out. I fell to the bed, but he came with me. A hand on the headboard above me, he began pistoning inside of me, as this round was all about him.
They were hard, almost dead-like, but he asked, “You done being a bitch?” Siobhan gasped behind him. I hadn’t realized she was still with us. I nodded, a small up and down, but it was true. He knew what I’d been doing. I said, but it came out as a whisper, “I’m sorry.” “I get it. What you’re going through, I’m shocked you’re not a bigger bitch.”
“There’s been no one since you. There couldn’t have been. My dick stopped working unless I only thought of you.” Best. Words. Ever.