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"Did you deserve such a threat?"

"Maybe I said in class that St Teresa didn’t have a asel ‘penetrated’ her with his ‘flaave her ‘ecstasy’" Elle used air quotes for e O VP Wells didn’t appreciate y"

Eleanor opened her ain She had zero words None Nothing She had no idea what to say to that

"I’o away now," she said

"Why?"

"You want me to stay?"

"I do"

She looked at him askance

"No one ever wants "

"I want you to stay," he said "And I’d like you to keep talking"

"I’aht?"

"Not this priest"

"What do you play?"

"Other gaames made Elle’s toes curl up inside her coa for me before I leave"

"What?"

"Take your hair down"

This tiue or ask why She siers through the messy waves and dropped her hands to her side

"Give ain and he took her unburned wrist in his fingers From her left hand he took her ponytail holder and wrapped it around her wrist

Slipping two fingers between the band and her wrist, he lifted it high and let it go, snapping the sensitive skin so hard she flinched

"Fuck … Jesus, that hurt What did you do that for?"

"Those burns on your wrist will takepain on yourself that don’t leave scars You should learn them"

Elle looked down at her wrist Her skin still reverberated with the pain of the vicious sting, but the redness had already started to fade

"Did you … You just …"

"Your body is a temple, Eleanor You should treat it like the priceless and holy vessel it is I learned one thing and one thing only fro to redecorate, either learn how to do it properly, or hire a professional"