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2024-10-29 19:42:56I stop his SUV car at the parking lot and he glances at me.
"Thanks for the drive home," he says. "I'll have one of my chauffers take you home."
I shake my head. "You're crazy if you think I'm gonna leave you with a bleeding head..."
CJ scoffs. "I'm fine... I know a thing or two about first aid... I'm not a kid."
"I can help you out," I offer. "You're like this because of me and -"
"Terra, Stop it!" he cuts me off.
Silence stretches between us, completely startled by him raising his voice at me like that.
"I'm Fine!" he breaks the silence. "Go home. Get some sleep."
CJ rolls down the window when a guy in a suit appears. I guess that's the chauffer.
They exchange a few words and CJ reaches for the door. I think he's about to climb out of the car when he suddenly looks back at me.
I don't look at him.
"All that stu
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CJ'S POVTearing Terra?What does that Even mean?Tearing Terra?To tear her apart is like tearing me apart. When she's hurt, I hurt. When her heart breaks, mine does too. Even when I tried so hard to torture her and cause her pain, at the end of the day, I would feel so bad about myself and completely drained. I would lie asleep at night, thinking about her and that would tear me apart.Tearing her apart tore me apart too.In short, I was not able to tear her apart like I had previously planned.I tried so hard to tear her apart but I was not able to.I wanted to stay away from her. See her suffer from a distance but I couldn't do that as well. I couldn't fucking stay away from her because I wanted to kiss her. Caress her. Tell her I had missed her. And it was so hard for me because I saw her on a daily... Saw that beautiful hair being flipped at meetings... That perfect sweet mouth curving up a happy smile at lunch... T
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