Lawrence’s kisses landed everywhere, his touch wild and desperate. He pressed his lips to her hair, then her forehead, not caring about order, just needing to get close. Bonnie fought him with everything she had left. She shoved at his chest, swung her fists, flung curses at him, her voice shaking and uneven.
He didn’t see how off she was. All he saw was anger on her face.
“Candie, Candie, please, listen to me.” Lawrence’s own sanity was hanging by a thread. He cradled her face in his hands, looking her in the eyes, speaking slowly, like saying it clear would make her believe him. “I’m not married. The kid isn’t mine.”
She stared at his mouth, but his words didn’t land. She heard nothing. She kept struggling, her glare cold and hard. He looked like a stranger, an enemy, not someone she’d ever loved.
She didn’t even hate him anymore. She just wanted out.
Lawrence couldn’t accept it. He couldn’t hold back his feelings, not when they felt like they were going to break him open from the inside. He crashed his mouth onto hers.
The instant his lips touched hers, a shudder ran through his whole body. More than three years of longing poured out all at once—now his breath turned heavy, almost gasping.
It wasn’t even a kiss anymore. He was almost eating her alive. Their teeth clashed, making her wince.
Bonnie barely registered what Lawrence had said. She was too busy fighting, burning up all her energy trying to get away.
The kiss was rough, so hard and desperate that her whole mouth went numb. Her lips stung from where he bit her.
It felt like he was trying to destroy her, like nothing else would be enough.
Fear crawled up her chest. She was scared of how lost he was now, scared of how this kiss dragged out every memory she’d hidden deep down. The ringing in her ears grew so loud, she heard nothing else—no gasps, no wild swallowing sounds, not even the wild pound of two hearts slamming together.
All she could hear was that ringing, a harsh reminder that the man kissing her now was the one who broke her in the first place.


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