What was she going to say to that? Was she going to tell him that she was beginning to feel attached to him? No. Of course not. Don't wear your heart on your sleeve again, Dinah…
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"What do you mean that it's over?"
"The FBI is calling off the investigation… And taking it in another direction… They don't need us to do this anymore…"
"It doesn't make any sense!"
"Yeah… Well… It doesn't have to make sense…"
"And just what the hell am I supposed to do now?"
"Stay out of the US and you should be just fine, Dinah…"
"Dinah? Oh, is that what you're calling me now? That's not what you were calling me last night in bed…"
"Yeah… Well… It's who you are now… You can't be Cassie Winslow anymore…"
"And that means that you're back to bein' just plain ole Jeffrey O'Neill…"
"Yes… Yes it does…"
"But aren't you going to miss being Prince Richard? Or did that lose its appeal once you couldn't play Daddy to little Jonathan anymore…"
"This isn't about that!"
"No? Well, the timings just right, isn't it?"
"He's been gone for months…"
"Maybe, but it hasn't been the same for you since he left…"
"I made my choice… And he made his…"
"You chose me…"
"No…"
"Yes, Richard, you did… You may have been half-drunk when you did, but you did…"
"No…"
"Unless it was Cassie that you chose..."
"Shut up, Dinah…"
"What's wrong Richard, did I hit a nerve?"
"No… You just sound stupid prattling on like that…"
Dinah moved in closer to Jeffrey, running a hand slowly down his chest. "Tell me Richard… Tell me you don't want your beautiful princess…"
Jeffrey grabbed her by the wrist and pushed her away. "It's done." He said. "It's over Dinah…"
"So gimme one more for the road…" Dinah said.
Jeffrey moved his lips onto hers, kissing her passionately before pulling away. "There…" he said, panting slightly.
"There?" Dinah asked. "I didn't ask you for a kiss, Richard…"
"It's over, Dinah! Or did you not hear me the last few times that I told you?"
"Where are you going, Richard? What's your new assignment?"
"That's none of your damn business, now is it, Dinah?"
"Are you going to watch over the real princess Cassie? Or are you going to go track him down?"
"Like I said, Dinah… It's none of your damn business…" Jeffrey said, turning to leave.
"I want to go with you…"
Jeffrey turned back around to face her, looking at her awkwardly. "What?" he asked surprised.
"You heard me Richard. I said that I want to go with you…"
"Yeah, well… Dinah, you can't…"
"I know that you feel something for me… Something more than just raw animal lust…"
"Even if I had come to care about you…" Jeffrey said. "So what?"
"You love me, Richard…"
Jeffrey laughed. "You know what, Dinah?" he said. "Maybe you really are crazy after all…"
"No more crazy than you are… So why not be crazy together?"
"I'm not crazy…"
"No? Admit it Richard… You're addicted to being Richard…"
"I like it… I wouldn't call it an addiction…"
"You call me Cassie in bed… Not so much because you want Cassie… But because you want to be Richard…"
"You don't know what you're talking about…"
"You get off on it… Just like you got off on calling him Jonathan… Do you know how sick that is Jeffrey? Taking advantage of an innocent little boy like that…"
"HE IS AN ADULT!"
"Now, maybe… But he wasn't when you first dragged him into this, was he?"
"Close enough…" Jeffrey said. "And you know what, I don't need to justify myself to you… I saved you, Dinah… From that rat hole that you were in… I saved you, and not the other way around… So I don't owe you anything…"
"You've been using me for months. I think that you owe me a little something… At the very least you owe me the truth… Tell me, Richard… Why do you get off on being the Prince?"
"Why do you get off on being Cassie?"
"Why wouldn't I?" Dinah said. "Sure as hell beats being Dinah Marler…"
"Well, then…" Jeffrey said. "There you go…"
"We can still do it, Richard… If not in public in front of the crowds, we can still do it when we're alone together…"
"We're not going to be alone together, Dinah…"
"Just because this is over doesn't mean that we're over…"
"This was us…" Jeffrey said. "Without this, there is no us…"
"You really don't feel a thing for me at all, do you?"
"Like I said…" Jeffrey replied. "Even if I had grown to care about you… So what?"
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"Did you wanna come with me or somethin'?" Jonathan asked, not exactly sure why. It was almost as if he felt compelled to in that moment. He didn't love her or anything like that, but it was nice to be with somebody who he felt understood him, at least, as much as anybody could understand somebody like him.
Dinah raised an eyebrow. "What?" she asked, almost hesitantly. "Are… Are you serious?"
Jonathan shrugged his shoulders. "Uh, yeah… Why the hell not… I mean, beats travelin' alone, no?"
"Yeah…" Dinah said. "I mean… I guess so…"
"So, any place particular you had in mind?"
Dinah shrugged her shoulders. "We still have a couple of days to think about it…"
Jonathan smirked. "Two more nights…" he said. "And then we'll be… Free…"
"Free…" Dinah said, echoing his sentiments.
"Free from the demons of the past…"