CHAPTER 40 PART 1

(Kyle's POV)I did not expect her to follow me into the shower.When I climbed out of bed at two in the morning, it was because lying next to her was torture in its purest form. Her body curled toward mine in sleep, her breathing soft and steady, her hair spread across the pillow in dark waves that caught the moonlight and made my fingers itch to touch them.She was supposed to be resting. The doctor told me to make sure she ate and slept and stopped doing anything strenuous. And here I was, the man responsible for a significant portion of her exhaustion, lying three feet away from her with a body that refused to cooperate with the rational part of my brain.So I went to the shower. Cold water. Distance. The physical equivalent of counting backwards from a thousand until the wanting subsided.Then she walked in. And the wanting did not subside. It detonated.Now she lay beside me in the dark, the sheets tangled around her legs, her skin still flushed and warm from the steam, and I cou

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CHAPTER 40 PART 2

The crack echoed through the bedroom. My head snapped sideways, and the sting bloomed across my cheek like a burn, sharp and immediate and entirely unfamiliar even after the third time she had done it."Was it fun?" Her voice shook with a rage so intense it vibrated through the mattress. "Was it fun sleeping with me while you had someone else the whole time?""What are you talking about?""Don't play dumb with me, Kyle!" She shoved the phone toward my face, the screen inches from my eyes. "Explain this. Explain it right now."I took the phone. The screen showed a gossip blog, the kind that thrived on celebrity scandals and manufactured outrage. The headline was bold, red, designed for maximum damage."Kyle Morrison Spotted With Mystery Woman: Is The Newlywed Already Cheating?"Beneath the headline was a photograph. Me, walking out of a restaurant, my hand on the lower back of a woman I did not recognize. Dark hair, elegant dress, her face turned just enough toward the camera to look i

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CHAPTER 41

(Lara's POV)I sat on the guest room floor with my back against the locked door, knees pulled to my chest, tears drying on my cheeks in salty trails I could not be bothered to wipe away.Stupid. Stupid, stupid, pathetic girl.I gave him everything. Not just my body, not just the shower and the bed and the sounds I made that I would never be able to unhear in my own memory. I gave him something worse. Something I swore I would never give another man after Maxton destroyed the first offering.I gave him hope.I let myself believe that the man who sat beside my bed for two hours watching me breathe was different from the man who told me I was nothing. I let myself believe that the panic in his voice when he carried me through the rain meant something real. I let myself believe that when he looked at me in the dark and whispered my name like it mattered, he actually meant it."Just a contract. Don't take it so seriously."The words played on repeat inside my skull, each repetition cutting

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