It Ends With Me
**ROMANY**
The moment the words are out of my mouth I regret them. Not because they aren't true, and not because they might push him into murdering Antony, but because the last thing I want him to do is go back to where we were. Back to the path of destruction he was on *after* the incident. When he was ignoring me...when he couldn't look at me. It was torture.
I cringe at myself, freezing with Alex at my back and my feet three tiny steps from the door. Taking a deep breath I scan the floor, looking for the one thing that might make the rest of this afternoon a little easier. I spy it to the left of me, in front of the coffee table and pick it up without another thought. There's only about a quarter of it left and as I turn back around I twist off the cap.
I don't know what I expected to see when I turned around, but it certainly wasn't Alex with his gun in his hand, tapping the damn thing on his thigh like he was counting down the seconds I had left alive. My eyes are glued to the motion as I stand there, the light tapping of the cold piece of steel in his hand against his leg. Without looking up into his eyes, I keep my gaze trained on his weapon while I pour a good deal of his whiskey down my throat.
bare chest. Finally, I trek up the iron cords of his neck, then ride his jawline toward the blazing green fire of his eyes.
my head suddenly swims with the amber liquid that I
a stupid as fuck smile on my face. I step around the table carefully, the meager buzz I gained from that one shot of whiskey not nearly enough as I approach his seat on the couch once again. When I get there I stand in front of his knees and stare down at his thigh, where the gun remains in his grip. He's still gazing past me, his eyes so intensely focused on *nothing* that it
up to my
done, dropping the empty bottle
groan, despite that the hit was right on target. Now though, he looks at me. "Do you know why I allowed it
it matters, but yeah, I do. It's because you're a sick
at me. "That's true enough, but despite what
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