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IT'S THE HARDEST THING I'VE DONE IN YEARS
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FOUR SHADES OF DREY YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO THEM
Chapter 120"Say something," I called over the noise."I can't.""Why not?""Because I think if I say it, you'll disappear."I walked toward him. Six steps, then a seventh, the cane tapping against the wet stone, my legs burning. He didn't move. When I reached him, I put my free hand flat on his chest, and I felt his heart hammering there as hard as mine."I'm not going anywhere," I said.It wasn't a lie. That was what frightened me.These past few days, I'd decided to go with the flow. I still don't understand how I felt about them but I knew that the revenge no longer stand.Though revenge is sweet but these four men are sweeter.He cupped my face in both hands as if I were made of glass, and kissed me slow and soft while the rain poured over us and the whole city blurred.It tasted like salt and water. I fisted my hand in his soaked shirt and pulled him closer, he made a sound low in his throat that I felt in my knees.When he leaned back, his eyes were wet, and it wasn't only the
FOUR SHADES OF DREY STAND IN THE RAIN
Chapter 119AureliaNobody said a word about the kiss after that.I lay awake most of that night with two fingers pressed to my mouth, sure I had dreamed the whole thing. By morning I had almost talked myself into it. Then I was wheeled into the dining room, and there sat Dreyden at the head of the table in a pressed grey shirt, reading something on his tablet with a face so calm it could have been carved."Good morning, Aurelia," he said, and slid the butter across to me.That was all. He didn't look up. But when he stood to refill his coffee, he passed behind my chair, and his hand rested on the back of it for one second longer than it needed to. His fingertips brushed my shoulder, light as a breath, and I dropped my toast into my lap."You okay?" Drayton asked from across the table, his mouth full of bacon."Fine. Slippery butter.""That's not how butter works," Dreylen said mildly, and went back to his eggs.Dreyden kept his eyes on his tablet the whole time. The tips of his ears
FOUR SHADES OF DREY SHOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING COLD
Chapter 118I should have said something cold. I should have pulled out the old anger and used it as armor. I could blame him for everything. Instead, I looked at his face in the low terrace light, at the tired lines and guilty eyes, and I said, "You might."He looked up. The whole night seemed to stop.His hand moved to the arm of my chair, close to mine but not touching. Close enough that I could feel the warmth of it. His eyes dropped to my lips, and mine dropped to his, and for a moment I was sure this was it."Dreyven," I said."I know." He swallowed hard. "I know."He stood, gently pulled the blanket higher around my shoulders, and pushed me back inside without another word.That night, alone in my bed, I stared at the ceiling and let the questions I'd been avoiding finally rise to the surface.Why did they always stop?Every time. Every single time, they came close enough to touch, and then one of them pulled away with some gentle excuse. And they all did it in the same caref
FOUR SHADES OF DREY I DIDN'T THINK I'D EVER SEE IT AGAIN
Chapter 117AureliaMy leg moved on a Monday morning, and I was the only one who saw it.Marta hadn't arrived yet. The nurse had left to fetch my breakfast tray, and I was lying alone in bed, staring at the ceiling and thinking about nothing in particular, when my right knee bent.Just a little. Just enough that the blanket shifted over it.I stopped breathing. I stared at the shape of my leg under the sheet and told it to do it again, and it did. The knee slid up slowly, shaky and weak, like a door that hadn't been opened in years.I laughed out loud, alone in that big room, and then I started crying, and then I laughed again. I didn't call anyone. For a few minutes, I wanted the moment to belong only to me.When Marta came that afternoon, I showed her first. Then she told the boys, and the penthouse went loud again, Drayton shouting, Dreylen smiling, Dreyden turning away to hide his face, Dreyven standing so still I thought he might not be able to move.By the end of the week, I co
FOUR SHADES OF DREY LEAVING ME ALONE IN THE DARK
Chapter 116AureliaLifting my hand for the first time felt like winning a war nobody else could see.It happened on a Tuesday, three days after the finger. Marta had me sitting up against a mountain of pillows, my arm resting on a folded towel across my lap, and she wasn't even touching me that time. She was just watching, arms crossed, waiting."Try lifting it off the towel," she said. "Just an inch. Don't force it. Let it happen."I stared down at my hand the way I'd stared at it every day for weeks now, willing it awake. Nothing for a long moment. Then, slow and trembling, my fingers curled and my whole hand rose off the towel, maybe two inches, shaking so hard it looked like it might fall apart mid-air.I held it there for three full seconds before it dropped back down, and the room exploded.Drayton let out a whoop loud enough that a maid two floors down probably heard it. Dreylen actually laughed, a real laugh, rare enough that Drayton stopped celebrating just to stare at him
FOUR SHADES OF DREY DIDN'T FINISH THE SENTENCE
Chapter 115I didn't finish the sentence because I didn't actually know how to finish it. I didn't think it would ever come back. I didn't think I would care this much when it did. I didn't think four men I was supposed to be destroying would be the ones standing around my bed looking like I'd just handed them the single best day of their entire lives.Drayton dropped down onto the floor beside the bed too, careless of his expensive trousers, and took my other hand carefully in both of his, like he needed to feel it for himself. "Can you feel this?"I concentrated. A faint pressure, distant but there, pressing against my palm. "A little.""A little," he repeated, grinning so wide it looked like it hurt. "Lia, a little is everything. A little means the rest is coming."Dreylen had crossed the room without me noticing, standing quietly at the foot of the bed now, his grey eyes bright in a way I'd never seen from him before. "How long until the legs might follow?""It varies," Marta sai
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