I blinked because even though Elena had been on my mind, in my fucking blood, for weeks, I hadn’t thought hard about our future. Maybe because I knew logically we couldn’t have one. She was too proper, too upstanding and moral. Too disgusted with the details of work that made up my entire existence. There was no way we could ever have a…relationship beyond the walls of my apartment, beyond the scope of this case. Yet the idea of giving her up made me mad. Crazed as a beast gone feral, foaming at the mouth. I was the only man who had ever made her come. The one to make her curse and make her
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