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tempted, but now that she was here she knew the truth. She wasn’t ready for this. She just wasn’t ready.
    She’d already been with a cheater, a guy who couldn’t stick to one woman at a time. Being eviscerated by someone like that once in a lifetime was more than enough for her, thank you very much.
    “I have to go.” She frantically searched for the door.
    “You can’t go now. It’s dangerous out there.”
    Not as dangerous as it is in here. “I’ll be fine.”
    Safer than if I stay anywhere close to you.
    Before he could stop her, she turned and raced for the front door she’d finally spotted. She yanked it open and was smacked in the face by a wall of wind and cold rain.
    But it wasn’t enough to stop her. Nothing could stop her. She had to get away.

Chapter Six
    Plunging headfirst into the maelstrom, Asia was immediately soaked to the skin.
    Rain streamed into her eyes in a constant torrent so that she couldn’t see where she was going. She tried to divert the rain away from her eyes without much success, but it was enough so that she could see where her car was.
    Heading straight for the vague red shape, she sloshed through puddles and wet grass, slipping and sliding as she went. Her soaked sandal-clad feet slid around within her now-slippery insoles, making it even harder to keep her footing.
    It was treacherous and impossible to get solid footing because she couldn’t see where she was stepping. It didn’t help that the ground was uneven. Marcus seriously needed to get someone out here to roll the lawn.
    Not letting any of it slow her down, she kept going, stubborn determination the sole impetus keeping her on her feet.
    One second she was moving forward, the next her feet flew out from under her and she landed flat on her back in the mud with the wind knocked out of her.
    She gasped for breath.
    What the hell had happened? She looked down and saw one sandal dangling off her foot with only the strap keeping it on. She must have tripped when the sandal slid off.
    The cold rain still came down in buckets. It didn’t matter that it was late June, she was soaked through and she was freezing. She needed to get up and get to her car, but instead she sat there and started to shiver. She couldn’t move. Breathing was the paramount thing on her to-do list at the moment, but rain was running into her mouth, making it harder to catch her breath. And now that the shivering had started it just kept getting worse. She couldn’t stop it and it made everything harder.
    She needed to get out of the rain and into her car. Once she got the heater going she’d warm up in a hurry and she’d be fine.
    Scrambling to get up, she struggled for a foothold in the slippery mud and lost the battle, slipping on her useless mud-soaked sandals. She fell back again. A dull pain throbbed through her foot. Damn it, what had she done now? She gingerly felt around her ankle, relieved to find that it only seemed bruised. But really, was nothing going to go her way today?
    Adrenaline roared through her system a mile a minute. She wanted to get up and go, but it wasn’t happening. Frustration roared through her too. Already stirred up from the kiss, still trying to catch her breath, and shivering uncontrollably, she had never felt so miserable. All she wanted to do was get away from Marcus, get home to the safety of her own place and weld the armor around her emotions back in place. But even the elements were keeping her from her goal.
    She swallowed hard and fought back the tears that threatened to make her humiliation complete. That was all she needed now. She had to get to her car. Once she did, everything would be fine.
    She tried once more to get up, but the mud made it impossible for her to get her footing. Only she would manage to fall into the one mud puddle in the entire yard. What the hell else could go wrong today?
    Despite how ridiculous she’d look, she contemplated crawling to her car on all fours. At least it would get