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breathed.
    “Yeah. Jade’s big plans for millions were a pipe dream. We got held up. He gave us half a million and told us to fuck off.”
    Erin was quiet for a second as she processed what I’d said, and I stared at her collarbone, not needing an answer. “I can’t even. I have no words.”  
    “Me either, and I don’t know what to do. I don’t even know if there is anything to do. I was so angry at her, Erin. So, so angry. I pulled my gun on her and …” I swallowed hard. “I almost did it. I thought really hard about it.”
    “She’s not worth it.”
    “None of this is. I’ve lost so much, and so much has changed, just like that. I’m left wondering who I am. What have I become? I’m a monster.”
    “No.” She cupped my face. “No, Cory. This is not your fault. All you can do is start over. We’ll figure all of this out.”
    My breath hitched against the pain in my chest. “I don’t want to think. I don’t want to hurt, Erin.” I slipped my hands around her waist and pulled her closer, our hips flush as our legs wound around each other. “I don’t want to feel.”
    She brushed my wet hair from my face, and her eyes searched mine. “I know.”
    “Make me forget.” A hot tear slipped down my cheek.
    She nodded and kissed me, her lips slow and easy against my own, her body warm as she pressed against me, knowing exactly what I needed. I focused every thought on her hands as she touched me, but when I closed my eyes, his face was right there, leaving me breathless.
    I opened them to banish him, watching Erin kiss down my chest. My eyes were on her lips as she closed them around my nipple through my tank and sucked, sliding her hands up underneath as I shuddered under her touch. She lifted the hem of my shirt over my breasts, trailing her fingers around the curves before palming them. She squeezed hard as she kissed down my stomach, looking up to meet my eyes.
    She parted her lips when she reached my clit, locked her mouth over me and sucked hard enough to make my legs tremble. She ran her tongue up my slit slowly, top to bottom, bottom to top, slipping a finger inside when she reached my clit again, and my hips rolled against her. Her free hand cupped my breast with my nipple caught between her fingers, and when she closed them and pulled, a shock shot down my body, between my thighs, straight to her mouth.
    I couldn’t close my eyes again, just watched Erin push every button, knowing exactly how to make me come, sending my pulse racing with every touch until I arched off the bed. My aching heart stopped for a long, merciful moment, lungs frozen as my body let go. I begged my heart to do the same.
    I didn’t realize I was crying, not until Erin and I were wound around each other again. She kissed my hair, told me I would be all right, that I would survive.
    And I would survive. I just didn’t know if I wanted to anymore.

I WOKE WHEN ERIN tightened the arm curled around my waist, pulling me into her. The warmth of her body, the feeling of her knees against the back of mine was a small comfort against the ice in my chest. I nestled back into her.
    “Hey,” she said sleepily.
    “Hey.”
    “Did sleep help?”
    My body was stiff as I rolled over to face her, but I felt better, rested. “A little.” Jade blew through my thoughts, and my heart jolted. “Do you think she’s here?”
    “I don’t know.” She reached for her phone and squinted at it. “It’s almost twelve. If I were her, I wouldn’t show my face until I was ready to handle the heat.”
    “So, never?”
    Erin laughed. “If only we could be so lucky.”
    If only. “I don’t even know what to do with any of this, Erin. But I need to see Jade. I need to know she’s going to leave Jill alone.”
    “And let you go.”
    “She doesn’t have a choice. I’m done with this.”
    Sympathy settled in behind her eyes. “I wonder what happened to Van.”
    I pictured him walking in and finding it gone after a night that was meant