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Chapter 31

Raine saw it on his face, then.

And Don had never seen someone’s heart crumple and break and collapse, not like that, but he saw it now: like sugar dissolving in winter. Like sun-seared frost.

“I’m sorry,” Raine said. “I’m sorry. I don’t know for sure. I don’t know. And I need to know. I need to know if I hurt you.”

The world had changed. It changed again at those words, at that hopeless acceptance: Raine thought it was true.

Don took a deep breath, let it out: sitting there naked in his sheets, with Raine, fully dressed, equally naked and not meeting his eyes.

He said, “I won’t say it doesn’t matter if you did. But even if you did, I still think you’re wrong about this.”

Raine glanced up, at that.