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She felt inexplicably afraid.

Geoffrey spoke abruptly, “Seems you had fun today?”

“Not bad.”

Maureen couldn’t grasp his implication.

“Was lying to me fun too?”

As he spoke, Geoffrey floored the accelerator.

Landscapes whizzing past the window tightened Maureen’s

nerves.

“What lie?”

She feigned composure.

Infuriated by her pretense, Geoffrey slammed the brakes.

The jolt nearly threw Maureen’s head against the dashboard.

Before she recovered, he lunged across, his crushing grip threatening to splinter her arm bones.

In the pitch–dark car, Maureen barely discerned Geoffrey’s face, missing the crimson rims of his eyes.

“Andrea was right–you’re a pathological liar.”

Geoffrey enunciated each syllable.

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The words struck Maureen like lightning.

She stared in disbelief, “What did you say?”

“I saw you myself–picking Gareth up at the airport.”

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His voice dropped to a venomous hiss in her ear, “Skipping Pearl tonight… to be with him?”

“You didn’t come back all night. Were you planning to do it with him…”

Before he could finish, Maureen raised her hand to slap him.

But before the blow landed, Geoffrey firmly seized her wrist.

He sneered: “Caught again?”

“Can’t you control yourself?

Why not keep lying?”

ringing in her ears, her vision

with unshed tears.

“Geoffrey, you’ve

deeper

truly had no heart!

Geoffrey grew even angrier. He raised his

felt icy beneath his touch,

about to

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were still in the car. Maureen

“You bastard!”

ignored her,

felt humiliation like never

he slammed her face against

you always wanted

I’ll satisfy you today.”

resistance was pointless and endured

silence.

to her ear, his voice a low threat: “If I catch

froze abruptly, fingers brushing dampness. Crimson

Maureen around, he saw blood tracing a path from behind her ear down

remove her hearing

your ear

Maureen heard nothing now.

was more hurtful

you

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Silence answered him.

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hear, Geoffrey drove straight

At the hospital,

but

doctor left, the

it. Getting no response, he pulled out his phone and

“Take the medicine!”

communicating through typed words, Maureen was thrown back over a decade

lost her hearing then too. Geoffrey had picked her up and,

on his phone just like

felt eerily similar to that

no longer

was.

eyes reddened slightly, pale lips parting: “No need. It’s an old chronic condition. Food

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