Because they were building trust. That was part of the plan. Well, not the original plan. That involved him keeping an eye on her to make sure she didn’t talk. It hadn’t included getting close to her. Wanting her. But she kept pulling him in. He didn’t like feeling this attached to someone. It made him uneasy. So he’d decided to make her so dependent on him that she couldn’t live without him. That was what a relationship was, right? Ah, well, apparently, there was also mutual trust, communication, honesty, respect, blah, blah, blah. He’d read all that nonsense in the relationship books he’d
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