Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

"Answer me, is it or isn't it?"

Millie shook her head, replying, "No, it's not... I... I didn't... Murray, you're hurting me..."

Murray pulled at the nightgown she was wearing, his smile filled with scorn, "Then how do you explain this? If you haven't done it before, how come you're so good at it?" When they first got together, he felt something was off. Just the night before, he was all over Roseanne, and then he wakes up next to Millie?

He chalked it up to a drunken mistake, thinking he had hallucinated the whole thing, never considering he'd been played!

Thinking about it made Murray's blood boil.

"You're pushing me to my limits!" he roared as he yanked Millie up from the floor, "Get out! Get out of my house!"

Overcome with rage, Murray felt his temperature rising.

His body felt like it was on fire...

He swayed slightly, his Adam's apple bobbing in discomfort.

Wait a minute! Murray's expression turned ice cold, realizing his symptoms were more akin to...

"Did you drug me?!"

shifted away, clearly broadcasting

you! How dare

the fire in his heart burning

stood up, her tears streaming down as she approached him, "Murray, I know you must be feeling terrible right now..."

Millie said, "I can help you,

she spoke, she began to

you. Even if I'm just a stand-in for another woman, even if

mind."

herself, "Murray, let me help you, okay? You need me right now, you need a woman. What Roseanne can't do, I can. What she's

lowered herself

there's no blooming in the dust, only to be trampled

Murray laughed mockingly, "You think

How do you

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to toe, you're nothing like her.

now you're offering

an insult to the word. A stray

words were harsher with each utterance, but Millie seemed not to

body pressed against him, she tiptoed,

I'll