Grisham“You saved me,” she says for the second time, this time more slowly.
I meet her gaze. “He would have killed you,” I say. “He was killing you.”
She nods, her eyes wet with tears. “But he didn’t. Because of you.”
I bark out a vicious laugh. “Tanzie, I’m not some f*****g hero. I’m just not. I try to run as clean a business as I can but s**t gets messy sometimes. I have to get my hands dirty sometimes. Please don’t make me into this tragic hero that you can fix or love or whatever.”
“Don’t push me away,” she says, her hands finding their way to my chest. I realize I’m still in my shirt and jeans. She’s still in her dress.
“There is no pushing away. I don’t want you for anything other than s*x. And now you’re just a liability. There’s no reason for you to even be here.”
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