I don't know what I'd expected when I told Asher I wasn't going to let him touch me if he didn't explain to me who Dante was. Did I think he would suddenly see reason and give me the answers I'd all but begged him for so far? Maybe. I mean, a part of me really thought he'd finally break and give me everything I wanted. I wasn't expecting him to just...leave. 

But leave me, he did. And now, I felt like I had shot myself in the foot. The earlier Asher-induced orgasm had been mind-blowing, but ...