The Summer of I changed

by m.t.e

Jeremiah has moved on, kind of. Not really. Still single, still in love with his brother's wife. It's been years since Belly married Conrad and lived happily ever after. But they aren't. He finds out during a birthday party that Conrad and Belly have been sleeping in different beds, arguing and even discussed divorced. Is everything about to change between the three of them?

24. My Plan

p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:75"The world had narrowed down to Belly and the soft glow of the bedside lamp. Her skin, warm and yielding beneath my touch, was a stark contrast to the cold dread creeping into my mind. I should be lost in this moment, intoxicated by her and the raw intimacy we shared. But a shadow, dark and insistent, was intruding on my paradise./p
p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:7"Conrad./p
p data-sourcepos="7:1-7:17"The image of him, his face a mask of shock and betrayal, replayed like a broken record. I was the one who'd shattered that bond. The guilt was a heavy weight on my chest, threatening to drown out the euphoria./p
p data-sourcepos="9:1-9:186"I tightened my arms around her, seeking solace in her warmth, but it was a fleeting comfort. Beneath the surface, a storm was brewing. A storm of emotions I didn't know how to navigate./p
p class="first-token" data-sourcepos="1:1-1:23"Her silence was a heavy weight between us. I could feel her mind racing, just like mine. She was replaying the same scene over and over, the look of betrayal on Conrad's face. And yet, despite the guilt, our bodies were drawn to each other like magnets. The physical connection was a tempestuous storm, a force of nature I couldn't control./p
p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:38"I was falling fast and hard. Belly was like a chemical reaction, a combustible mix of desire and forbidden fruit. The thought of losing her was a pain sharp enough to make me blind. I'd risk everything for her, even if it meant destroying my family, alienating my brother./p
p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:413"My phone's insistent vibration jolted me back to reality. Amanda. I glanced at Belly, her eyes closed, a delicate mask of peace on her face. I knew this was a betrayal on another level, a betrayal of myself. But as I answered the phone, a part of me felt a twisted relief. A distraction./p
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translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" she purred./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; 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auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" a stark contrast to the heavy silence in the room,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" grated on my nerves./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" Belly,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; 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translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" still flushed and disheveled from our shared morning,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; 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isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" her expression a mix of annoyance and confusion./span/p
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ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="3:1-3:41"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"I managed a curt,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "Hey,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" my voice flat./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" Iglanced at Belly,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" who was already pulling on a robe./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="5:1-5:61"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""How's your day going?/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" Amanda pressed,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" her tone oblivious to the undercurrent of tension./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="7:1-7:68"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""Long,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" I replied,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" my eyes fixed on Belly's retreating form./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="9:1-9:76"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""Oh,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" that's too bad./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" You free tonight?/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" Amanda's voice held a hopeful lilt./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="11:1-11:65"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"I felt a surge of irritation./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "Can't,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" I clipped./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "Busy./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""/span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="13:1-13:141"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"I ended the call,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" the sharp click echoing in the room./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" I turned to find Belly standing in the doorway,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" her arms crossed,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" her eyes narrowed./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="15:1-15:68"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""That was.../spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" inappropriate,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" she said,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" her voice low and controlled./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="17:1-17:56"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"I took a step towards her,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" my heart pounding./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "I know,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" I'm sorry,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" I began,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" but she cut me off./span/p
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ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="19:1-19:95"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""No,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" Jeremiah,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" she said,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" her voice rising slightly,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "it's more than that/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""/span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="21:1-21:138"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"Her anger was a physical force,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" pushing me back./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "I didn't mean it like that,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" I protested./span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="23:1-23:45"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"She scoffed softly./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" "Then what did you mean?/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" /spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"Her anger was a wildfire,/spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" threatening to consume everything in its path./spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" I could feel the heat radiating from her,/spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" a stark contrast to the cool morning air./spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" But beneath the anger,/spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" I saw something else,/spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" a flicker of desire,/spanspan style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" a spark that mirrored the one burning in me./span/p
p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:104"I had to have her. The thought was a primal urge, a force I couldn't control. Her body, so close, yet so tantalizingly out of reach. I held her wrists, my grip firm but gentle. I could feel her resistance, but I was determined./p
p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:1"I wanted to apologize, to explain, but the words were lost in the maelstrom of desire. All that mattered was her, and the intoxicating pull between us. I leaned in, my breath warm on her skin. This was a line I'd crossed countless times, but never with this intensity, this desperation./p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="25:1-25:198"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"She tried to pull away,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" but I held firm. /span/p
p style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 16px 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" data-sourcepos="27:1-27:163"span style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;""I want you,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"" I said,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" my voice low/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;"./spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" Her eyes widened in surprise,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" then slowly,/spanspan style="animation: 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running none; appearance: none; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px none #1f1f1f; inset: auto; clear: none; clip: auto; columns: auto; contain: none; container: none; content: normal; cursor: auto; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; d: none; direction: ltr; fill: #000000; filter: none; flex: 0 1 auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; gap: normal; hyphens: manual; isolation: auto; margin: 0px; marker: none; mask: none; offset: normal; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline: #1f1f1f none 0px; overlay: none; padding: 0px; page: auto; perspective: none; position: static; quotes: auto; r: 0px; resize: none; rotate: none; rx: auto; ry: auto; scale: none; speak: normal; stroke: none; transform: none; transition: all; translate: none; visibility: visible; x: 0px; y: 0px; zoom: 1;" desire began to flicker in their depths. /span/p
p class="first-token" data-sourcepos="1:1-1:28"Her eyes flashed with anger, but there was a flicker of something else, a raw vulnerability that made my insides twist. I leaned in, my lips brushing against her ear. "You know you want this," I whispered, my voice low and husky./p
p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:23"I traced a line with my lips down her jawline, my hands finding her waist. She tried to pull away, but I held her firm. My lips found her neck, soft and inviting. She shivered, a mixture of anger and desire warring within her. I could feel her resistance fading, replaced by something hotter./p
p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:22"I moved lower, my lips finding the sensitive skin of her collarbone. She gasped, her hands coming up to push against my chest. But there was no real strength behind her movements. Her body was already betraying her mind./p
p data-sourcepos="7:1-7:346"With a swift movement, I pinned her against the wall, my hands bracketing her face. Our lips met with a force that belied the gentleness of our earlier touches. It was a hungry, desperate kiss, a melding of bodies and souls. Her hands found their way to my hair, pulling me closer. The world narrowed down to her and the taste of her on my lips./p
p data-sourcepos="9:1-9:41"When we finally broke apart, we were both breathless, our foreheads resting against each other. I looked into her brown eyes, and in the depths of the rich color, I saw a reflection of the storm that raged within me./p
p class="first-token" data-sourcepos="1:1-1:19"We broke apart, our breaths coming in ragged gasps. Her brown eyes were filled with a storm of emotions, but desire was undeniably the dominant force. Without a word, we turned and walked back to the bedroom./p
p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:43"The room seemed to close in around us as we moved towards the bed. Our hands found each other, fingers intertwining as we moved. The sheets were still rumpled from our earlier encounter, inviting us back into their embrace./p
p class="first-token" data-sourcepos="1:1-1:19"As we fell onto the bed, the world narrowed to the two of us. The sheets, rumpled and inviting, cushioned our descent. Our lips met again, a fierce, hungry kiss that deepened as our bodies entwined. Her hands, once filled with anger, now traced patterns on my back, a silent plea for more./p
p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:89"I shifted, bringing her legs around mine, and she responded with a moan, her body arching into me. My hands explored her curves, the soft skin beneath my palms sending shivers down my spine. Her breath came in quick, ragged gasps as I kissed my way down her neck, my tongue tasting the salt of her desire./p
p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:208"Her hands pulled at my hair, urging me closer. I moved with a primal urgency, my body aching for release. With a final, desperate thrust, we reached the precipice together, a moment of pure, ecstatic abandon./p
p data-sourcepos="7:1-7:263"In the quiet aftermath, we lay entwined, our bodies slick with sweat. Her head rested on my chest, her breathing slow and even. I traced gentle circles on her back, feeling a sense of peace wash over me. For this moment, at least, the world outside didn't exist./p
p class="first-token" data-sourcepos="1:1-1:30"I lay there, the weight of the world pressing down on me. The afterglow of our passion still pulsed through my veins, but a cold wave of guilt and uncertainty crept in. I'd betrayed Conrad, my brother, for this moment of rapture. The memory of Belly's jealousy over the phone call was a stark reminder of the complexities of our situation./p
p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:77"She was a wildfire that had ignited within me, a consuming passion I couldn't extinguish. I couldn't deny the intensity of our connection, the magnetic pull that drew us together time and again. A plan began to form. I wouldn't let her go. I would immerse her in a world of desire, a whirlwind that would leave no room for doubt./p
p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:163"I pulled her closer, my arm around her waist. She nestled into me, her breath warm on my neck. I kissed the top of her head, a silent promise of what was to come./p
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