[ of all the lies she was expecting, this wasn't it -- and is it a lie? she staggers back as if he'd hit her, shock all over her face again, and this time there's a streak of desperation in it, that all she's lived through these last ten years must somehow mean nothing.
and miles -- had miles lied to her, too? that thought is almost too much to bear.
this time she doesn't think. it just happens, and a raw cry tears unbidden out of her throat as she backhands him, hard, the same place she'd struck before. ]
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and miles -- had miles lied to her, too? that thought is almost too much to bear.
this time she doesn't think. it just happens, and a raw cry tears unbidden out of her throat as she backhands him, hard, the same place she'd struck before. ]