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Sixty-Three: Heartbreak Warfare
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2023-08-10 10:13:29He knew. She could see it in his eyes when they got home from the party. The way he was looking at her ... reading her. He was furious, jealous, he was holding it back for some reason, but he knew. She felt it in his thrusts. He had never fucked her like that before. He was raping her in his mind. That was the closest description she could think of. She was being punished. She felt it. How messed up that she actually thought it was the best sex they had ever had throughout their entire marriage?
She touched the bite mark on her left breast. The breast that Roman sucked in that bathroom just hours before. She put her hands on her face as the water washed over her. 'Fuck' she muttered to herself.
Declan was not in the bedroom when she stepped out of the shower. The greatest sex of their marriage didn't change anything. He didn't come back to bed the whole night as she lay awake until sunrise. He was nowhere in the house when she finally woke up at midday.
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