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“You said yes, but you can’t say yes when you’ve already made that promise to someone else. So, either that makes you a liar, or what you’re actually saying now is ‘No, you don’t accept.’”

“I do accept.”

“Liar! I fucking don’t believe this. It’s exactly like before. I’m still every bit as blind and trusting and fucking stupid as before. You’re just like her. You’re like Connie. Has any of it been real?” A thought clearly entered his head, for his expression froze, then his eyes narrowed and a nasty sneer spread across his lips. “Did Iain really spike you, or was that a convenient excuse to explain away why he had his hand up your skirt. Did I just come back from the khazi a little too soon for you to enjoy the quickie you really had planned?”

“Ash don’t.” Ginny shook her head. Everything was broken between them if he was prepared to entertain the notion that she’d willingly have thrown herself at that evil, conniving, monster. “Please don’t doubt us. It’s all been real, right from day one.”

Her plea fell on deaf ears.

“Everything since day one has been a lie. You’re a lie. Is Ginny Walters even who you really are?”

Her goldfish gawp immediately gave her away.

“The trench keeps on getting deeper. You’re right, we don’t know one another. You apparently don’t even exist.”

“Ginny is my birth name, or rather a shortening of it. I legally changed my surname. I needed something Miles wouldn’t associate with me. I didn’t want him to find me.”

“What was your married name?”

She bit down on her lip, as a sob threatened to erupt and tears banked in her eyes. “Ginny…that is, it’s Geneva. Geneva Winters.”