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CLOSING

Lila did not know what came over her but she did not have time to think because Rosa had dropped her off at Damien's house with nothing but luck. She was not sure if she had enough money to bail out of that place if she changed her mind halfway. She took out her phone to see if she could call her driver to come get her but it was dead. She sighed and then walked to the gate. "Since I am here, I might as well get this over with." "Hello, ma'am," Grey said before she could press on the doorbell. The gate was sectioned in such a way that one could see inside from outside and vice versa. "Is Damien in?" she asked, trying to act as cool as possible. "I want to see him," she added when he stood there looking at her as if she had said nonsense. "Yes," Grey said, shaking his head and going to open the gate for her. Her eyes had cleared a bit but she knew that she was brave because of the intoxication. She cleared her throat and waited for him to say something. "Come on in; I will go get h
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CONTACT

"You do not like honey water?" "It's not that I don't like it; it's just that I do not want to drink it.""But you are drunk." "Not anymore," she whispered, closing her eyes and shaking her head as if that was supposed to prove something to him. "I am definitely not drunk," she added and he made a sound.He walked to her and then held her hand tightly by her wrist, so tightly that she could not wiggle her way out of it, so she just gave up. "Take this," he said, pushing the cup into her hand. "What are you doing?" "Drink this," he said. She knew that expression all too well; that was the same one that her mother carried. It was simple and all it meant was don't argue with me. She wanted to protest but to what end? She knew that she would still drink the water so why did she need to stall?"I am not drinking this because you said so," she murmured, taking the cup to her mouth; the liquid filled her mouth as she drank it. "Happy now?" she murmured, dropping the cup on the table. Sil
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BARE

"I needed this," Lila said in a slur as she pressed the empty beer can. Damien was careful to prevent what had happened before from happening again. He was not trying to get her drunk, but it seemed like she was drinking to get herself drunk instead. "Why don't you slow down?" He murmured, trying his best not to look at her but to stare at the wall directly ahead. "What?" "You drank wine and now you have drunk three cans of beer." He pointed to the crushed-up cans in front of her as her hand lingered forward to get another can. "Why are you trying so hard to get drunk?" he asked. She took the can and opened it as if she was not hearing all he was saying at that moment. When she swallowed the liquid in her mouth, she turned to him."I need it for courage." "Courage," he said as if he was testing out the new word he had found out. "Courage for what?" he added immediately."To talk to you" "What do you want to talk about that needs so much courage?" he asked. She liked how responsiv
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HEARTS ON DISPLAY

"Are you not going to say anything?" Lila asked when they sat in silence for a long time. She had said she was not asking him for a response but it would feel good to hear what he had to say.She did not know what his reaction was going to be but she had braced herself for anything. She was not going to deceive herself and it did not hurt but one thing she was going to try and live with was the fact that she could not control him or his reaction. "Is that the way you feel?" "Yes, and I know it is wrong but...""What makes it wrong?" he asked, cutting her squeaky voice. Her voice was already betraying her and showing that she was afraid and wanted to sneak away. "What?" "What makes your feelings wrong?" "I mean, if I had not killed Amber, then you would be in a very loving relationship with her now but since she died because of me, it feels like I am taking candy from a baby," she replied with her head bent down as she stared at her legs crossed underneath her. She did not know h
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FRAGMENTS

"More than..." Her sentence stopped midway with his lips grazing against hers. Her eyes widened in shock as she took a sharp breath. "What are you..." As her mouth opened to talk, his lips touched hers again, this time kissing her and not stopping.She was lost; she had confessed to him; this was something she wanted but still, it felt wrong. She took her head back and created space between them. Damien could not understand why."Why?" he asked. He was supposed to string together a coherent sentence but he could not."I know we both just confessed to each other now but it still feels wrong." She was too proud of herself at that moment; she knew she was drunk yet she was able to hold herself together. "Why is it wrong? After we have bared out our hearts to each other?" he asked."Because I am in a relationship with Gavin." "I thought it was fake." "It is but... Wait, you knew it was fake? How did you know this? Was I that bad at acting?" "I had a long conversation with your mom," h
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MAYBE

"Are you leaving?" Damien's voice startled her a bit. She stopped slowly and turned to him with a fake smile on her face. She thought he had gone upstairs but he was standing there with his back to the wall and his face to the wall ahead of him. He turned his head in her direction. He had only gotten one end of the conversation so he could not tell what it was that they had discussed. "Gavin called me to come and testify so they do not get him arrested." "And you are on your way to testify?" Damien's jaws squared as he felt anger surge through his blood. His mouth felt a little bit bitter and he did not know how he was supposed to rectify that."I want to call my mom first to hear what she has to say." Damien put one foot in front of the other and slowly closed the gap between them. With each step he took, she felt her stomach fall; she wanted to escape by any means possible because she was not sure if she would be able to control herself if he stood in front of her. "Do you have
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STATIONED

Damien stood in the spot that Lila had left him for a while; he could not tell how long he had been standing there until Grey came to him and alerted him. He lifted his eyes and began to walk to the study. "What is this about?" "I just got a message from the police about Ms. Voss's case being reopened for investigation." "By who?" Damien asked. He needed to know who did this to know how well to react."Mr Voss" "He is taking that route?" Damien murmured. He had told Kevin to wait but it seemed the man could not wait to bring Gavin to justice. It made sense that since they had the evidence and a case, they would reopen it, but Tessa and Lila seemed to be making it bigger than it was. He could understand them; after all, the life of a small child could be ruined or made just by the actions they made."Get more details and report it to me." Grey nodded and bowed his head, ready to leave. "Also," Damien began; he did not want to bring it up earlier but it seemed as if he did not have a
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SEE

"Officer, can I ask you to do something for me?" Tessa asked as they sat in the room. "Yes, ma'am," the man replied with a huge grin on his face. When she walked in with her mom, she felt a kind of suffocation from being there. The station that Gavin was in seemed to be better than the one she was taken to. This seemed to be a place for people who had some kind of connection with wealth. The officers had given her and her mother some kind of preferential treatment and Lila still could not get over how different things were when things like this happened. "One Mr. Gavin Holt was brought in today, right?" Tessa continued. The man frowned because he thought that Tessa was about to ask for his release; the man did not want to be caught in the crossfire. Mr. Voss had been the one to bring him in and he would not like to release the man without Kevin's approval. Kevin had promised to come with evidence to get him locked away for a long time. If Tessa asked him to release him, then he wo
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ENTITLED

"What took you so long?" Gavin's voice rose when Lial made her way into the room. He wanted to control himself but could not; he hated the way the room he had been kept in felt cold and lifeless with metal-like walls staring back at him everywhere he looked. There was nothing aside from two chairs and a table. He knew from movies that the other chair was the one where the detective would sit to interrogate him."I am sorry it took me so long to get here," she said, pressing her fingernails into her palm. She could not believe she still had to act like a devoted girlfriend to him. "Are you not going to explain why you are late?" he asked when she did not care to explain further. She contemplates what to tell him; does she tell him that she went to Damien's house and that they almost kissed? She cleared her throat and diverted her eyes from him. "Sit down," he said in a commanding tone, pointing to the chair opposite him. She moved from the table gently and came to sit opposite him.
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STRANGER DANGER

Lila stared at the ceiling with fear gripping her heart; she did not know why but it felt as if something was about to happen to her. Something big, something they could not ignore and she was determined to stop it by all means necessary. When she had told Gavin she needed to take Jason with her at least so he was not scared while he stayed in jail for forty-eight hours, he had not complained because there was nothing he could do. All of his pride was dependent on Lila and he had to just do what she wanted, at least for now. As soon as they sign the marriage paper and he has her under his thumb, he is going to do all he wants to do. Her phone began ringing by her side and she froze when she saw Damien's name across the screen. She bit her lips hard as she watched it ring and stop before it began again. She didn't know how long Damien would go on if she did not pick up the phone and it was too late in the night to find that out. She slid across the phone screen and pressed it to her
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