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Haunting-Adeline

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took it all the way, and every morsel inside my being has been wai ng for

this moment. An cipa ng it.

I’m dying to deny him, yet I have to fight my body from turning and

pulling him into me.

Maybe just this once…

I bite my lip, rolling the bruised and abused lip between my teeth.

He watches me closely, studying every movement like he’s trying to

interpret a dead language hidden in the lines of my body.

“Are you only saying that because you think it’ll work?” I ask, my voice

husky and uneven.

His mouth is s ll angled towards my ear, with his eyes locked onto mine.

Slowly, he shakes his head, his face severe and gaze intense.

“You’re telling the truth?” I push, my voice hitching with the despera on

for him to just lie and tell me no.

“Yes, Adeline,” he whispers.

I close my eyes, resigna on seeping from my pores. Sensing the change,

his hand travels across my flat stomach. I tense beneath his touch,

goosebumps rising on my skin.

His long fingers latch onto the zipper of my hoodie, slowly pulling it

down, par ng the material at a painful pace. The sound of the metal teeth

separa ng disrupts the sound of my erra c breathing.

“Don’t torture me,” I bite out, anger flashing from his deliberately slow

pace.

A wicked smile flashes, and even the mirror can’t lessen the cruelty.

“Poor li le mouse,” he taunts. “You’re sadly mistaken if you thought I

was going to make this anything but painful.”

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