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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?”

felt deafening ringing in her ears, her vision

with unshed tears.

trembled: “Geoffrey, you’ve gone too

deeper than

had

this, Geoffrey grew even angrier. He

icy beneath his

worse, I’m about

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that, he reached for

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car. Maureen

“You bastard!”

her, growing

felt humiliation like

slammed her face against the

you always wanted

I’ll satisfy you today.”

knew resistance was pointless and endured

silence.

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

abruptly, fingers brushing dampness. Crimson stained

tracing a path from behind

fumbled to remove

ear

Maureen heard nothing now.

figured it was more hurtful

pressed, “Do you have your

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Silence answered him.

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couldn’t hear, Geoffrey drove straight

At the hospital,

but her hearing didn’t

left, the room fell into heavy

Getting no response, he pulled out

“Take the medicine!”

the man communicating through typed words, Maureen was thrown back over

she’d lost her hearing then too. Geoffrey had picked her up and, realizing she

kept typing messages on his

moment felt eerily similar to

no longer the gentle boy he

was.

“No need. It’s an old chronic condition. Food

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