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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.

trembled: “Geoffrey, you’ve

deeper than

had no heart!

Geoffrey grew even angrier. He raised his hand

icy beneath his

I’m about

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that, he reached for

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the car. Maureen frantically tried to

“You bastard!”

ignored her,

felt humiliation

he slammed her face against the

you always

I’ll satisfy you today.”

resistance was

silence.

a low threat: “If I catch you meeting him

froze abruptly, fingers brushing dampness. Crimson stained his

he saw blood tracing a path from behind her

fumbled to remove

your ear bleeding

Maureen heard nothing now.

was more hurtful

you

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Silence answered him.

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couldn’t hear, Geoffrey drove straight

At the hospital,

but her hearing

left, the room

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

“Take the medicine!”

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

too. Geoffrey had picked her up and, realizing she couldn’t

typing messages on his phone just like

felt eerily

longer the gentle

was.

need. It’s an old chronic condition.

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