Page 193 of Endgame
“The fuck you are.” I break into a run, but she’s already too far ahead. “Get back here!”
She doesn’t listen. She sprints, every inch she puts between us tearing me apart.
The last thing I catch is her blur disappearing into a bathroom on the main floor.
By the time I’m pounding on the door, it’s too late.
The lock clicks.
She’s gone from my reach.
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AURORA
Oh no.
Oh.
No.
“Aurora.” Everett bangs on the door but he doesn’t raise his voice.
I hear the underlying panic in it, regardless. The threat is just as audible.
It’s bone-chilling.
I won’t obey.
Not when my period has started.
The blood that soaked my panties while I sat on his lap is leaking through the toilet paper I stuffed in them a second ago.
“What’s going on?” A sigh. “Aurora.”
“Go away, please.”
“Let me in, dammit.”
My chest tightens. He sounds genuinely worried, and I can’t do this. Can’t bring myself to tell him I’m bleeding.
The first man I’ve ever loved. The first man I’ve slept with.
I can’t.
Heat threatens to consume me whole.
I pinch the bridge of my nose. Ithink.
Even if I did find it in me to tell him, it’s not like he’ll go away. He’ll demand to be let in no matter what.
Everett, with his maddeningly sexy need to control everything, especially me.
He won’t take no for an answer.
He’ll do something insane and possessive like…I don’t know.
No, I do. He’ll break the door down. And he won’t stop there.
