Hard Way
“It was the truth and it was a truth that he’d deserved to know, just as she’d known it was wrong to keep that from him.
Liam went deadly still. His gaze fixated on her with burning fierceness, although her skin was chilled. Only moments ago, amazing lassitude had made her believe everything was right with the world. With their world.
She pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her elbows around them. That didn’t calm the way her stomach roiled.
Liam hadn’t said anything—just watched her, a... distorted echo of the way he must’ve watched her while she’d been tied up. After a long minute, he retrieved his pants and hitched them up, hiding the delineated angles of his hips. He sat on the arm of the couch.
At least he was facing her.
She wanted to draw the sheet up over herself, or maybe get dressed, but she wasn’t ready to move. She might crack into a thousand shards of glass. Five minutes ago she’d been filled with the incontrovertible happiness that came with hope. To have crushed that herself was too much to grasp.MoreLess
Liam went deadly still. His gaze fixated on her with burning fierceness, although her skin was chilled. Only moments ago, amazing lassitude had made her believe everything was right with the world. With their world.
She pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her elbows around them. That didn’t calm the way her stomach roiled.
Liam hadn’t said anything—just watched her, a... distorted echo of the way he must’ve watched her while she’d been tied up. After a long minute, he retrieved his pants and hitched them up, hiding the delineated angles of his hips. He sat on the arm of the couch.
At least he was facing her.
She wanted to draw the sheet up over herself, or maybe get dressed, but she wasn’t ready to move. She might crack into a thousand shards of glass. Five minutes ago she’d been filled with the incontrovertible happiness that came with hope. To have crushed that herself was too much to grasp.MoreLess
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