Chapter 72

Author's POV

She stared at the papers. In disbelief, she raised her lashes at him, distrust written on her face.

This was to make him feel threatened that she still wasn't done with her fight to escape him.

But he had taken it seriously.

"Take it, Maya," he urged, his voice getting icy.

She swallowed, her hands on the papers he held, and he made sure his fingers caressed hers before he let go of them.

She let her eyes fall from his face down to the paper, and when her eyes fell on his scribbling,

She couldn't hold the fury, for on the papers, he had drawn a huge "no" over the space that needed his signature.

The paper was ruined.

"How dare you!" she sneered, the tears threatening to fall from her eyes.

He leaned so his face was close to hers. "No. How dare you think it's going to be over just because you say it is?"

"What the fuck do you even want from me?" 

"You! I want you!"

"No, you don't!" 

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