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A cold shiver surged through her, sending static across her skin. Her ears rang. The room spun a little. She froze,
her thoughts folding in on themselves. Then, from the eye of the storm, Collin cut in almost casually. “Didn't you
want him dead?”
Her lips parted. She nodded. Then she shook her head.
Then nodded again. No—wait. Yes. No. Yes. She sat there, glitching.
Collin raised a brow, completely confused. He clicked his tongue and sighed. “What are you doing? Speak. You've
got a mouth, don’t you?”
That jolted her. She swallowed and tried again. “Felix was a jerk,” she mumbled. “But... killing him? That's too
far. You did it for me, and I... I=" The rest collapsed in breathy stutters.
Collin, still oddly patient, slid a hand around her waist. “You what?” he coaxed.
Her eyes dropped to the floor. Her voice cout softer, slower. “You didn’t have to go that far for me...”
The realization sank in. He had crossed a line, risked everything, for her. The weight of that truth ached in her
chest—tender, confusing, unbearable.
Then she heard a quiet laugh from him.
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Her eyes flew up. “Why are you laughing?”
He shouldn't have laughed. She was just so easy to fool.
But Collin didn’t let it show. Instead, he offered another charming little smirk, brushing his thumb across her
cheek like she was porcelain. “You're my wife,” he said simply. “How could | sit back while someone slandered
you in public?”
“But... you can’t just kill someone...” Linsey said slowly, caught in his earnest gaze, her voice tapering off.
Before Collin could say more, she suddenly snapped to attention. “The police!” she exclaimed, panic overtaking
everything else. “They'll cfor you. You need to hide!”
Without waiting, she moved behind him, fumbling to push his wheelchair toward a better hiding spot.
Collin barely stifled another laugh, catching her hand to stop her. “Hide? That's not going to help—"
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“Of course it will help!” she cut in, still wobbling slightly on her feet from the alcohol. But she looked dead
serious. “I'll take the blame. I'll tell them I killed Felix. I've got a motive, and history with him. They'll believe it.”
He stared at her. For the first time, he was speechless. “You'd take the fall for me?” he asked slowly, almost not
trusting his ears. She nodded with fierce resolve. “Yes.”
Collin frowned, his fingers tightening around hers as he searched her face. “Do you even understand what you're
saying? This isn’t a slap on the wrist. If they believe you killed him, you could be executed, Linsey.”
The words hit her like a blow. Her
entire body froze, and for a morpent,
she looked like sorédae whoge soul
had fushbéen yanked out. Collin
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As he had expected—she wasn’t ready to die for him.
He was just about to tell her the truth when her voice rang out.
“Let it be.” The words fell from her in
a determined whisper. She meant.
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