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Chapter 55 - Troubled Water

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My heart fell, and I found it hard to find a better word to reply, or I would make it more awkward than it already was. “What are we exactly? Just a marriage of convenience? We fuck every night, go separate ways and do our jobs during day time. Then, after eleven months, we bid goodbye. Is that what you want?”

She didn’t say anything but look me in the eye, and her silence made me more uncomfortable.

“I know I hurt you, and that’s why I’m trying hard to gain the trust I broke. And what we have here is special. I can feel it. We have something worth working out. Or am I the only one who feels this? Tell me, Maverick. Lay your cards on me. What do you want?”

She turned away, leaving me confused and shattered.

***

“What are we waiting for?” I tapped my fingers on the armrest impatiently, facing Linden. He decided that we meet at the Osmium so no one could know about this meeting, so discreet that I’d been dying to know the information he found about Maverick’s possible father.

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