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“I have nothing left to give,” she whispered.
“Just you being here, it’s enough.”
She shook her head. “This is crazy.”
“Yes.”
“I can’t—”
“You don’t have to do anything.”
“You really think that after all we’ve been through that we can just go back to the way it was?”
“No. We’ll never go back to that. We both have scars from that day. We’ve both changed, but we’re still us at the core. I know what I need. What do you need, Lyla?”
“I need to be alone.”
“Not going to allow that. What else?”
She wanted to throw something, but she was shaking too badly for her to have decent aim. “I don’t want drama.”
“I’m planning to be pretty boring. I’m still CEO of Pyre Casinos. I can do that job in my sleep. I gave up my title as crime lord when I went into jail and I haven’t picked up the mantle since I got out.”
This guy was the same one who tackled her yesterday and threatened Carmen so she would agree to marry him? He looked as calm as could be and was outlining their life as if the murders never happened. “You really are crazy.”
He inclined his head. “I know.”
“Who’s the crime lord?”
“Don’t know, don’t care.”
She didn’t believe he was completely out of the underworld, but she didn’t want to talk about it. “You forced me to marry you!”
“Yes.”
“And now you expect me to sleep in the same bed as you, punish you and live an ordinary life with you?”
“Is that a problem?”
“You’re impossible! I don’t want you and I don’t want to be here!”
“I know, but you aren’t going anywhere.”
“So I’m a captive. Again.”
“For now. For your own safety.”
She wanted to rip her hair out. “I was fine on my own!”
“No, you weren’t.” He held up a hand when she would have raged at him. “Yesterday your eyes were blank, your skin was pale and you didn’t eat. Today, you ate enough for the both of us, your cheeks are flushed and you look like you might commit murder. You’re waking up, Lyla. What you did this past year wasn’t living.”
“The last time I tried to live life to the fullest, I nearly died,” she said bluntly.
“This time, you’ll flourish.”
“I don’t believe it.”
“I know. You will in time.”
