He Humiliated Me in Public, So His Regret Pays by the Tear novel · Chapter 27 of 32

Chapter 27: Midnight

His apartment on Ashland had a radiator that knocked and a window that looked at a brick wall.

I climbed the stairs at nine on Saturday night.

My phone was in my coat pocket, and the clock in it was running down.

He opened the door in a clean white shirt, barefoot.

He had not expected me.

I could see it in his face, plain as a slap.

"Hal."

"I'm not forgiving you," I said.

"Okay."

"Not tonight. Not yet. Maybe not ever. I want that understood."

"Understood," he said.

"Not forgiveness. Just tonight."

I walked past him into the room and put my coat on the chair.

He shut the door.

The radiator knocked twice.

"Say it back," I said.

"Not forgiveness," he said. His voice was low and unsteady. "Just tonight."

I crossed the floor and kissed him.

He made a sound I remembered from our first year, a half-broken sound, helpless and glad.

His hands came up and held my face like something that could still be taken from him.

This time there was no hate in it.

There was a great deal else.

I pulled his shirt open and he let me.

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