BentleyI try to move past her again, but she stops me, bringing her hand up to hold my face and closing the gap between us. Her scent invades my nose, suffocating my personal space.“You have been avoiding me,” she says.I shake my head, trying to remain calm despite the tension coiling in my chest. “No... what? No.”“Yes, you have,” she insists, her fingers stroking my face with a familiarity that feels wrong now.“I was with you last week. I know that you are having a tough time right now, considering the fact that your husband just died and you know… you need a friend. I’m trying to be that friend—”“We can’t be friends, Ben. We were never friends,” she says, a glint in her eyes that makes me clench my jaw. She’s right, and the truth of it stings.“Stop,” I tell her when she presses herself against me, but she doesn’t move an inch.I wrap my fingers around her throat and push her back as gently as I can, trying to maintain some semblance of restraint. “Stop, Aria.”“Stop what?”“I
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