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“We’re… going to be… soon,” he whispers.
“Going to be?”
“It’s been over between us for years. We’re like friends more than anything else.”
I blink as I stare at him.
“Come on, Soph. You know this is good. What we have here. You and me.” He pulls me closer and slides his free arm around my waist, dropping his lips to my neck and kissing me beneath the ear. “We’regoodtogether,” he whispers, his voice deepening.
“When was the last time you slept together?”
He pauses, and the brief hesitation is all it takes for my heart to fall to my feet.
“The truth, Henry.”
He clears his throat, before he kisses my neck again. “All that matters is that I want you. And you want me.”
“When?” I grind out.
He pauses again. “Last Saturday.”
“It’s Friday. That’s six days,” I say without giving away my shock. Another trick that I’ve learned through my job—never let them know if they’ve caught you off guard.
I try and step out from his hold, but he tightens his arm around my waist.
“It’s not like that. Please,” he urges, pressing his lips to my neck again and pulling me closer to him. “I want you, baby.”He moves his lips to mine, pressing them to mine in a bruising kiss.
“Get off!” I place both hands on his chest and shove him backward, giving myself enough room to finally breathe properly.
“Don’t be stupid. It’s nothing. Don’t ruin this.”
Stupid?He’s dismissing me like a silly girl. He’s a gaslighting, chauvinistic pig. Possibly even a narcissist. How did I miss this?
He reaches for me, but I step back again, creating more distance between us, making his brow knit with annoyance.
“Come on. Let’s forget about all this. You know I love you.”
Those words leaving his lips break my final resolve. He’s ruining everything they stand for as they pass his lying, cheating lips.
“You wouldn’t know love if it came and bit your dick off! Does your wife know where you are? What you do behind her back?”
His eyes darken.
“Didn’t think so.” I storm over to retrieve his crumpled jacket. I launch the creased ball at his chest, and he catches it with one hand. “Get out.”
“Soph.”
“Out!”
He doesn’t move. “I’ll let you calm down. Then we can talk about this like adults.”
“Now!” I yell, heat firing over the back of my neck as my skin prickles like a thousand tiny needles are pressing into it. “Get the hell out!”
He sniffs before walking past me slowly. He parts his lips to say something as he reaches the door, but maybe I look like I’m moments away from murdering him, because he opens the door without uttering another word.
“And don’t call me,” I hiss.
Even though I’m shaking inside, I don’t allow him even the tiniest glimmer of weakness that he might use to manipulate me with.
