TWO WEEKS LATER

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It turns out, Valen was really good at being at being good. And I hated good Valen.

Okay, so maybe hate was too strong of a word. But I have fantasized about different ways of murdering him at least two dozen times over the last two weeks.

He hasn’t touched me once! At least, not in the way that I wanted him to.

Oh, he’d been frustratingly helpful in every way possible. Helping me to stand. Helping me to sit. Helping me to lie down and ...