I toss and turn all night long, trying to forget what I just witnessed. But every time I close my eyes, the images of Nicholas with that woman seem burned into the inside of my eyelids, jolting me awake again.
Why would he go to all that trouble just to torture me like that? Is he really that cruel?
He is Nick’s Dark One, I realize. All the bad parts of Nick, wrapped into one person: Nicholas.
As much as I hate to admit it, the worst part about all of this is how it made me feel. It felt like I was being betrayed by Nicholas, even though he and I had never defined our relationship.
I shouldn’t care who Nicholas sleeps with if I’m committed to Nick, right? But if they are truly two halves of the same whole, shouldn’t Nicholas be mine too? Is it wrong to want them both, even if they
