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I twisted her arm right up behind her, planted my knee in the small of her back, and pulled on her elbow to make it hurt. She wasn't going anywhere. She didn't resist but I knew better. She had that cold stiffness to her that told me she was freezing me out. How to thaw the ice?<br><br> | I twisted her arm right up behind her, planted my knee in the small of her back, and pulled on her elbow to make it hurt. She wasn't going anywhere. She didn't resist but I knew better. She had that cold stiffness to her that told me she was freezing me out. How to thaw the ice?<br><br> | ||
− | "Listen, you," I hissed in her ear. "You say | + | "Listen, you," I hissed in her ear. "You say I've kept secrets from you? Well you've done the same to me. Instead of coming to me when you were hurting, you hid it. You kept it a secret. From me. You say I didn't want to hear what you were thinking? Bullshit. I asked because I wanted to hear what was going on in that head of yours. I needed to find out where you were, what you thought, how bad off things really are. And it's bad. Because you don't want help. You don't want to get better. You want to marinate in it and I'll be damned if I let you take this ship or this crew down doing it."<br><br> |
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