Things inside this pack were as they had always been. She turned to her studies and stayed away from Jace, focusing once again on her assignments and quizzes. He appeared to be more annoyed with her than usual, about her lack of wanting to come to bed, and her stating she had to study all the time. He’d thought things had been fixed because he’d seduced her, and they’d had s*x, but why would things change? When it took him all of four days of her being home for her to feel those pains of betrayal once more, they’d shot up and around her ear, then ran down a part of her neck, as he touched Gloria, and she bit her lip and breathed through the pain of it. He’d used her body to sate his needs, and was back to being with the woman he loved. She’d wondered how long it would take; he’d seduced