Chapter 3

Derek stared at her, taken aback. "Why would I want to do that? Why would you want to do that?" He asked, beginning to wonder if the whole accident and tears thing had been a ploy to get to him. Evelyn's cheeks burned with a mixture of shame and a strange sense of defiance. The words had tumbled out before she could think.

"I mean," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper,

"do you... find me attractive?"

He stared at her, his blue eyes narrowed in confusion.

The silence stretched between them, thick and heavy.

Evelyn wanted to crawl under the seat and disappear.

This impulsive act, born out of heartbreak, was already spiraling out of control.

Finally, he spoke, his voice carefully neutral. "Yes," he conceded, "but I don't understand. Why would you want to have sex with me?"

Evelyn took a deep, shaky breath. Every fiber of her being screamed at her to run, to get away from this man, this stranger who had witnessed her breakdown.

But the raw, exposed vulnerability within her battled that instinct.

a strange calmness in the face of the unknown, a temporary escape from

all my life. The worst mistake," she hesitated, tears welling up again, "And I need to make one more mistake

one you made already left

by doing this, I might be able to forgive myself for that terrible mistake. Don't try to understand me. The only thing I want

know who you are or your

studied her intently for a long moment, his expression unreadable. She could almost see the wheels turning in his head, the questions

face. It wasn't a

"No, I can't do that. You're clearly upset. What was the mistake

began to take off her dress, stripping

watched her, confusion warring with desire as she walked over to him, her eyes pleading.

from her naked body, "I can't

hurting. And I really don't

I need a temporary reprieve," she said as she raised herself on

he let go of any hesitation and returned the kiss with

carried her over to the

kiss he held her

about this?"

she said, her

her consent, he pinned her against the bed and ravaged her lips, while his hands

that she had been sleeping with a stranger and planning to marry him for the past four years, but something about the way this stranger

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