Chapter 79: Broken.

"No-I just mean-"

"I get that you have some twisted idea that we're better off not speaking or touching or being around each other, but I don't share that idea. We feel something for each other and you'd rather stick your head in the sand than take this one opportunity to figure out why we might have something." She held up a hand when he opened his mouth. "I fully understand why a relationship is out, what I don't accept is your lame attempt to cheapen what could have been a great one-time thing between us. So really-shut the fuck up, Mason, because I don't want to hear it. We went to a party. We drank. Someone somewhere is an asshole and tried to drug me. They got you instead, and then we had sex. My bad for assuming you were on the same page as me, but I will not let you piss on the only good thing that happened in this nightmare."

She turned and stalked into the postage stamp-sized bathroom and slammed the door shut.

He stared at the wooden rectangle for several long moments.