“You didn’t watch for me…” he says softly, accusingly.

I frown, a number of the spell he’s put me underneath breaking. “I waited all afternoon for you.”

I pined at his sister’s window just like the lovesick pet she accused me of being.

He stiffens then suggestions his head down, bringing our eyes nearer. “Actually?”

With nowhere else to look, the depth of his gaze sucks me again in, pulling me additional into the nicely of his private gravity.

“Sure,” I say, sounding breathless. “The place have been you?”

He appears to be like away abruptly, breaking the connection, however not earlier than I catch a flash of guilt.

I don’t suppose I’ve ever seen Adam look responsible earlier than. Even when he’s finished one thing blatantly fallacious or horrible. He all the time has a logical cause prepared to clarify his habits.

Disturbed, I take a step again and look him over.

Every kind of terrible prospects run via my thoughts. Has he lastly grown bored with me being youthful than him? Was he with one other lady? Somebody older and extra mature?

Would I even have the ability to inform?

Free of the alluring energy of his gaze, I pay attention to all of the little particulars I beforehand ignored.

The flushed colour of his neck.

The shortage of tie and loosened collar of his white shirt.

The smear of crimson close to one among his buttons…

Oh god, is that lipstick?

I make a choking sound as my coronary heart cracks in half and his eyes jerk again to me.

“Abigail, I can clarify…” he says as I take a step again, his eyes stuffed with panic.

I’m positive he has a superbly good excuse however there’s no manner I can bear listening to it. Shaking my head backwards and forwards, I spin on my heel, able to run.

However he grabs me from behind and slaps his hand over my mouth.

Arms tightening round me, he lifts me off my ft and half drags, half carries me away from the drawing room.

I kick at his shins and jab my elbow into his ribs, however all he does is grunt and power me down a darkish hallway.

Once I slam the tip of my heel down into the toe of his shoe, he lastly stops dragging me and pushes me into just a little alcove.

“I needed to, Abigail. I needed to,” he pants in opposition to my ear. “There was no different selection.”

Tears flood my eyes and I scream and rage at his palm earlier than I begin to chew at him.

I don’t need his excuses or his logical causes for doing what he did.

He’s damage me in a manner that may by no means be forgiven.

Ignoring my tooth scraping in opposition to his calloused pores and skin, he takes a deep breath, pushing his chest into my again, then firmly declares, “You already know what I’m. You’ve all the time recognized. This adjustments nothing.”

“It adjustments all the things!” I attempt to scream again nevertheless it comes out a muffled mess.

My physique begins to shake from the power of my sobs. I’m crying so exhausting I can’t get sufficient air via my nostril.

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