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“Untie me,” she says

I inhale her scent “Not yet”

Her eyes shoot back at me with fire “Untie Me”

“Not until we finish talking My task was to get you to admit you love me”

“I don’t—”

“You do You have this entire tiht of roh hell together, and you still wouldn’t say the words out loud Why? Why didn’t you want to tell me?”

“Why didn’t you?” she snaps back

Touchè

We stare each other down I need to untie her and let her release her wrath, but I’m not ready just yet

“How did you get the supplies? The knife? The fake blood?”

“That’s what I was doing while you locked yourself in the bedroo me Rose’s toy knife and blood from her Halloween costume last year”

“What did she go as?”

“A prince who had just slain a dragon The knife was her sword Atlas went as the dragon”

Her lips lift in a smile at the mention of our kids When she sees ain

“Untie ain