Before I could even reach the closet, his hand closed around mine and he pulled me back into his arms, holding me with a firmness that once felt like safety but now felt like restraint. His touch no longer comforted me but trapped me instead in a space I could no longer breathe in. “Leave me alone!” I snapped immediately, my voice cutting through the air between us with a sharpness I didn’t even recognize in myself, and I hated how his hands still acted like I belonged to him, especially when those same hands had clearly been on Serena, on someone who was never supposed to exist in this space between us. Luke didn’t flinch at my resistance, instead tightening his arms around me, he’s not noticing my anger, or maybe he’s thinking I’m angry because he didn’t come home on time on our anniversary. “I’m sorry, Bella,” he said softly, his voice carefully shaped into something gentle and familiar, the kind of tone that used to undo all my anger in seconds, “you know I’d never put anyt
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