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74 || Gone (II)
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2024-10-29 19:42:56My eyes snap open. We stare at each other. Was that his plan? To steal kisses from me and leave? No fucking way.
“Sorry for what?” Calum moistens his lips and I feel his regrets. He is sorry for kissing me. For touching me. Is this how it will always be with us? I launch an attack on him, raining punches on his chest, his shoulders. “I hope you had fun at your dumb club.”
“Cathy.” He darts a look at the door in warning but I don’t care. I’m tired of him. “Cathy, stop.”
“No, you stop,” I snap. My punches grow more frantic, he grabs my wrists and pins me under him. The fight leaves my body and my arms fall to my sides. “Where were you the whole day? Where?”
Moving, Calum repositions on the edge of the bed and folds his hands behind his neck. I hate him and I love him. Fuck him. “With a producer. It wasn’t supposed to be the whole day but we ende
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