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CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Ryder could use another bottle of whiskey, or three, but he'd sworn off drinks after the raging hangover he'd sported this morning and the extra glass he'd nursed till she'd got back.
She looked distressed and her eyes had pleaded with him to go soft on her for a full minute, but he'd had his head buried far into his asshole and had ignored that.
He hadn't even given a flying fuck what it was that had made her that way, he didn't ask what out that drowning sadness in her eyes.
Instead, he'd made it worse by calling her name's and making accusations, because he'd been mad with his rage and all his pent up anger against the world came pouring out in torrents.
He could hear her pulling her box down the stairs and through the living room, but he couldn't bring himself to go after her.
What would he say to her?
He had nothing to offer now, not after he'd been as cruel to her as the devil himself.
And then there was that voicemail fr
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