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"Why?" I asked in a desperate voice and then looked over at him. Immediately, his dark irises flitted across my face and he frowned, visibly irritated.

"What do you mean?" he asked as tears slowly filled my eyes.

"Why all this? Why don't you just let me go?"

My voice cracked from the pain and I also felt the warm tears that inexorably found their way down my heated cheeks.

"Quite simple