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"Unfortunately, I need to live for something beyond myself." She said dryly, adding, "Unlike some people."
He scowled, "I live for something."
"Yes, yourself. We've talked about that, remember?"
"Why are you so nasty to me?"
He didn't see it but her hand trembled violently against the leather cover of the book she held. Taking an imperceptible breath, she stilled it and sharply faced him.
His scowl dropped at the intensity of her eyes as she hissed at him, voice barely above her normal yet more lashing than a whip. "Because you're too easy on yourself. Because you have so much potential yet you squander it away like it's nothing, as if t