His body burned with fever. That heat almost scorched my heart.
So I didn’t resist. I let him undress me, half–willingly.
No wonder he’d called my name in that haze, only to treat me as if nothing had happened the next day.
He had been drugged
And everything I’d agonized over–the confusion, the heartbreak, the shift in the way he looked at me–he never even knew.
He thought it had been Caryn all along.
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Chapter 7
The sorrow rose in me, helpless and bitter. Tears welled up, falling one after another.
+25 BONUS
I’d spent so many sleepless nights tormented by feelings I couldn’t control, by a love I didn’t want, and his cold indifference.
But now I knew–It had all been a mistake. A carefully constructed, human–made mistake.
I doubled over, covering my face as the sobs came.
From behind the glass, Callum saw me break.
He shoved the door open, storming in, and pulled me into his arms.
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His eyes locked on Caryn, burning with fury. “What did you say to her? Caryn, do you want to spend the rest of your life in prison?”
That familiar warmth wrapped around me, but I felt nothing but cold.
I couldn’t stop shaking.
Caryn burst into laughter, crazed and ragged.
“Callum, why do you never see me?” she screamed. “You say you like me, Do you really see her as just a sister? Just your brother‘
but your
eyes–they’re always chasing after Diana!
s girlfriend?”
I felt Callum stiffen beside me. His jaw clenched so hard I could hear the grinding of his teeth.
But in the end, he said nothing.
He just held me tightly and led me out of the station.
On the way back to the hospital, he kept sneaking glances at me.
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His whole body was tensed and on high alert, like he was walking
