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53. LOVE OR LUST II

~PAMELA

"What did you do to him!?" I asked in utter disbelief.

"I am helping him, Pamela, and please lower your voice, I have had to listen to him scream his lungs out for the past two hours," Circe sternly said to me.

"Well, some help you are," I muttered.

"Pamela," Stephan said in a hoarse voice "It is alright, let us go to bed, I am exhausted," He said as walked up to the stairs.

I glared at Circe who gave me her usual condescending look. Her eyes told me that she knew something that I didn't. I went after Stephan, glad that I was finally rid of Elizabeth and her sex-crazed slave.

Stephan had walked far before I cleared the stairs. When I got to the room, he sat crossed leg by the foot of the bed looking at nothing in particular.

I sat beside him and crossed my legs too. I had no idea what Circe did to him to make him so glum. For the first time, he looked so fragile, like he could shatter at any time into pieces.

I said nothing to him and he said nothing to