room together,
she had you at gunpoint. I don’t want her anywhere near you.”
“But, Christian, she was ill.”
“I know that, and I know she’s better now, but I’m not giving her the benefit of
the doub一t any more. What she did was unforgivable.”
“But you’ve just played right into her hands. She wanted to see you again,
and she knew you’d come running if she came to see me.”
Christian shrugs as if he doesn’t care. “I don’t want you tainted with my old
life.”
What?
“Christian . . . you are who you are because of your old life, your new life,
whatever. What touches you, touches me. I accepted that when I agreed to
marry you, because I love you.”
He stills. I know he finds it hard to hear this.
“She didn’t hurt me. She loves you, too.”
“I don’t give a fuck.”
I gape at him, shocked. And I’m shocked that he still has the capacity to
shock me. This is the Christian Grey I know. Leila’s words rattle around my
head. His reaction to her was so cold, so much at odds with the man I’ve
come to know and love. I frown, recalling the remorse he felt when she had
her breakdown, when he thought he might in some way be responsible for
her pain. I swallow, remembering, too, that he bathed her. My stomach twists
painfully at the thought, and bile rises in my throat. How can he say he
doesn’t care about her? He did back then. What’s changed? Sometimes,
like now, I just don’t understand him. He operates on a level far, far removed
from mine.
“Why are you championing her cause all of a sudden?” he asks, mystified
and irritable.
“Look, Christian, I don’t think Leila and I will be swapping recipes and knitting
patterns anytime soon. But I didn’t think you’d be so heartless to her.”
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His eyes frost. “I told you once, I don’t ha一ve a heart,” he mutters. I roll my eyes
—oh, now he is being adolescent.
“That’s just not true, Christian. You’re being ridiculous. You do care about
her. You wouldn’t be paying for art classes and the rest of that stuff if you
didn’t.”
Sudd
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