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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

with unshed tears.

trembled: “Geoffrey, you’ve gone

deeper

truly had no

angrier. He raised his

icy beneath his touch,

worse, I’m about to show you

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reached for Maureen’s

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were still in the car.

“You bastard!”

her,

humiliation

slammed her face against

you always wanted

I’ll satisfy you today.”

knew resistance was pointless and

silence.

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

fingers brushing dampness.

he saw blood tracing a path from

fumbled to remove her hearing

ear

Maureen heard nothing now.

was

“Do you

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Silence answered him.

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hear, Geoffrey drove

At the hospital,

Maureen, but her hearing didn’t

doctor left, the room fell into heavy

dissolved medicine in warm water and offered it. Getting no response, he pulled out

“Take the medicine!”

the man communicating through typed words, Maureen was thrown back

Geoffrey had picked her up and, realizing she

messages on his

moment felt eerily similar

now, Geoffrey was no longer the

was.

lips parting: “No need. It’s an old chronic condition.

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