[Music recommendation: AZEE - 24]
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'Do you not want me?'
That ridiculous question stunned him more than anything he had heard or seen in a long time.
Don't want her?
As if such a thing was even possible at the stage of madness he was currently enduring.
He had left her in the foyer purely for her own good. He had heard her heart slamming against her chest, had seen the slight trembling when he drew close to her, and the alarming intensity of her nervousness had made him think that perhaps she wasn't ready.
With everything she had been through in such a short time, he wanted to be the absolute last person on the list of things eating away at her from the inside.
