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CHAPTER 15
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2026-10-28 17:12:05
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Half A Stranger CHAPTER 15
SERENAThe next week passed in a consistent pattern. Every night, Zane came to my room, we would fuck, and he’d leave. Oddly enough, this had become our only interaction. At breakfast, he avoided eye contact and focused on Lori instead, asking her questions to break up the silence.Every day, I found myself wondering if I had imagined the night before. If I couldn’t still smell him on my sheets, I would have thought I had. He was like a switch. Completely shut off during the day, and at night, he came alive. The intensity between us only got hotter, and I found that I could hardly lie in stillness waiting for the sound of him entering my bedroom. I was desperate for more, but he only gave me enough to get my fix, and then he left me cold. I had turned into an anxious mess. My thoughts were constantly at war, and my heart was battered more than I’d care to admit.Those feelings in me were too big to be contained. Too big for words. I was afraid at some point he was going to see it, and
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SERENAWhen I went down to breakfast the next morning, I was half expecting to find Zane gone. I’d convinced myself he would totally avoid me after opening up to me last night, but it came as a shock to find he was there as usual. We greeted each other wordlessly, and there wasn’t much to talk about at the table that day. Lori was tired, but she mentioned her excitement about the boat outing planned for the following weekend. I focused on her, but I could feel Zane’s gaze on me. I just couldn’t return it, because I was afraid of what I might find there.I was still in shock from Zane’s revelation yesterday. I’d spent four years hating him because I was convinced he’d tried to kill me, and now… I didn’t know what to think. Zane didn’t attack me that night… My husband never betrayed me. Instead, I was the one who had left him for nothing. I had no idea how to go forward from here. I couldn’t just come out and say ‘oh just so you know, I lied to you and I’m actually Sophia, and instead o
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He reached down and helped me unzip his trousers, revealing a bulging pair of black briefs. Before I even touched him, the heat radiating from him warms my skin. Our gazes locked, and he was so still, I’m not sure he’s even breathing. I reached for him, slowly sliding my palm over his engorged cock. A visible tremor moved through his entire body as I did, and it stirred a deep want within me.”I never knew my body could feel so empty, but right now, it did. It was screaming for him. Desperate for him. Willing to do anything to have him inside me. I slipped my fingers beneath the waistband of his briefs to touch him for real and he jerked at the contact, a muffled curse heaving from his lips. He was so hard for me, it produced a strange flutter in my belly. He looked down at me, losing himself to the moment as I wrapped my palm around his thick base and stroked him. His eyes took on a drunken intensity and then he tipped his head back, rocking into my fist like he couldn't help
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ZANE I found Serena in the hallway outside Lori’s room, arms full of folded laundry, moving like she had somewhere urgent to be even though I knew for a fact that her afternoon was free. “Serena.” She stopped, but didn’t turn fully toward me. “Yes, Mr. Carter?” Mr. Carter. We were back to that, apparently. “You’ve been avoiding me.” I kept my voice neutral. “I haven’t been avoiding you.” She answered too fast, already reaching for her phone before the sentence finished, thumbs moving. A second later my own phone buzzed in my pocket. I pulled it out to find a text from her, sent from four feet away: There’s no issue between us. I stared at the screen, then at her. “You just texted me instead of answering.” “I answered.” Her chin came up, defensive. I pocketed the phone. “Look, I don’t want whatever happened between us to affect Lori’s care. That’s all I’m asking about.” “It won’t.” Her voice was clipped now. “Everything’s already forgotten.” That answer irritated me more th
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SERENAZane cursed under his breath and twisted toward the door, and I scrambled for the duvet on instinct, only to find it had slipped to the floor at some point in the tangle of the last hour. I grabbed for it too late, my nightgown ridden up, nothing left to hide behind but my own hands, while Gia stood frozen in the doorway with an expression that could have put Medusa’s glare to shame.Zane’s face did something complicated, and for one unbearable second I understood exactly what it felt like to be the other woman in someone else’s story, even though I was fairly certain I’d been the first one.“Lori will be up soon,” Zane said finally, his voice emotionless.I understood the words for what they were… it was my cue to leave.I gathered the duvet around myself long enough to find my discarded nightgown, pulled it on with hands that wouldn’t stop shaking, and forced myself to walk toward the door with whatever scraps of composure I had left. Gia hadn’t moved from the doorway, arms c
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I didn’t decide to move closer. It just happened, my hand still resting against his jaw where I’d been cleaning the cut, the space between them collapsing without either of us noticing. He looked at me the way he had at the sink in the cabin — hungry and wrecked — and this time neither of us pulled back.His mouth found mine, and it was nothing like I’d imagined. It was not rough, and it wasn’t the desperate collision I might have expected from a beat up, grieving man. It was slow instead, searching, like he was trying to memorize everything. I kissed him back before I could stop myself, four years of hatred and longing tangled so tightly together I couldn’t separate one from the other anymore.He deepened the kiss, his tongue delving into my mouth with a growl as his hands started to grope my body. It started at my breasts, pawing and squeezing before he dipped his palm beneath the material to graze my nipple. I startled at the jolt of electricity it produced, leaning into his touch
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