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LEAH.

“Tell me Leah, in these few days that we’ve been apart, haven't you missed me?”

My heart skipped,

Once, twice.

Thump, thump.

I wanted to think rationally, I wanted to think like a normal person in the situation. Why on earth was Lucas suddenly interested in me? After all the maltreatment I had gone through? After all he had done to me?

I didn't want to be anywhere near him, but I was betrayed by my heart. My body craved him. The one person it shouldn't.

How disgusting could I be? The man that had shown me hell, just in the space of a few weeks, was now offering an olive branch, and here I was, wanting to grasp at it with everything in me.

How pathetic was that? How pathetic was it that I still wanted him this much?

“No, I haven't.” I said with the little shred of dignity left in me. “I haven't missed you,” I ground out. I couldn't let this man take everything from me. Literally all I had was already in his position.

“What are you saying?” He asked, flinching back, with surp
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