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"I proved my point."
"What point?" Shane asked, and his voice came out smaller than he intended. Desperate. He needed to understand what this had been, needed Hudson to give him something to hold onto.
Hudson grinned. "That I could."
The simplicity of it stole Shane's breath. That I could. Could take Shane from Ilya. Could make Shane want him. Could matter, even briefly. It should have felt cruel - being reduced to a point proven, a challenge met. But somehow it didn't. Somehow, it just felt honest. Hudson had never pretended this was forever.
Somewhere across the city, Ilya Rozanov was furious, but for the first time, his anger didn’t control Shane’s world.
