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

you! How

took a couple of harsh breaths, the fire in his heart burning even brighter,

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

Millie said, "I can help you,

spoke, she began to slip

you, willing to do anything for you. Even if I'm just a stand-in for another woman, even if you're

mind."

okay? You need me right now, you need a woman. What Roseanne can't do, I can. What she's unwilling to do, I'm

lowered herself to

blooming in the dust, only to be trampled

mockingly, "You think you can

How do you

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nothing like her. Not

drugged me, and now you're offering to help? Millie,

you 'cheap' would be an insult to the word. A stray dog has more

harsher with each utterance, but Millie seemed not to hear them, her face tear-streaked

him, she

you're in pain, it's okay, I'll