She couldn't even be bothered to utter the word "leave"; instead, she turned her head towards the window, pretending he wasn't

there.

Fitch's forehead was reddened from the splash of soup, and his temper, already on a short fuse, was being forcibly contained.

He wanted to explode, but seeing her so much thinner, and remembering the slap from the night before, he swallowed his anger.

"I've left the dog here."

As he finished speaking, Zoey cracked another smile.

"Take your dog and get out."

"Zoey!"

His tone grew stern, his features hardened, but her next words froze him in place.

"Mr. Haskins, are you going to slapagain?"

Fitch stood motionless, something piercing sharply through his heart amidst the dull ache.

He held the dog carrier, suddenly finding himself without a comeback.

To others, Zoey had appeared unhinged the night before, especially after dousing Wendy with boiling water. Without intervention,

who knew what she might have done?

It was a moment of desperation.

He had never been one to hit women.

his heart,

unscrupulous in her aims.

Haskins' with the intention of entanglement, which

cin person to snatch Ozzy seemed ludicrous, given Wendy's top-tier

who would have thought, Wendy had

wronged Zoey that night. How desperate did she have to be to storm into the Haskins' under those circumstances, Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ

to face

"Irrational."

that single word, he left with

grabbed a pack of paper towels, wiping

carried the dog carrier back to his car,

quiet, curled up, oblivious

cracking the window to avoid smoking out

cigarettes, he drove back to his

left to care for it himself.

wouldn't be an issue.

suit, and as he dried his hair, he thought of the way Zoey had looked at

expressions before. When bullying her, she was humiliated; when disliking her, she

aggrieved.

disbelief, she

the first time, he couldn't bear to meet a

the initial

he couldn't

was still under investigation. Belinda had insisted,

her up to it. But when she heard her man was cheating

Nobody toldto. Why should that tramp Zoey have it better? We're both

fortune; her daring to refuse is laughable. She

the start."

Zoey madedo it. Everyone would believe it

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