Toxic & Tainted: The Billionaire's Cursed Obsession
We stand like that, his hand on my jaw and my face tilted up and four months of war and four years before that between us, and the elevator humming faintly and the emergency lighting doing its slightly wrong thing with the shadows, and neither of us moving, which takes everything I have and I suspect takes everything he has as well, and I think: this is what it has always been, this specific unbearable distance.
I close my eyes.
His thumb moves once, lightly, across my cheekbone.
Then the lights come back.
Full power, sudden and bright, and the elevator shudders and resumes its upward movement, and his hand drops and I take a step back and we are two people in an elevator again, separate and
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