I Loved You More Than I Should Have (Paperback)
Sadie Cross
Sold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
New - Soft cover
Condition: New
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. She hit him. That's the part everyone remembers.Kira Stokes spent eighteen months in a Florida prison for breaking her boyfriend's nose. The court saw a violent woman and a calm, bleeding man on a porch. The neighbors saw what they always see-the storm and the shore. Nobody asked what Julian Price said to her in the three seconds before her fist connected with his face.Kira can't tell them. Because she doesn't remember the words.She remembers the shape of the sentence-two clauses, the second one landing like a door slamming shut. She remembers his voice: calm, precise, weaponized. She remembers the white-hot flash behind her eyes and the sound of her knuckles against bone. But the words themselves are gone, buried somewhere in a memory her mind refuses to unlock.Three months out of prison, Kira is rebuilding from nothing. A studio apartment above a bait shop. A desk job paid under the table. A court-mandated therapist who watches her the way you watch a sentence you haven't finished reading. She checks her locks three times. She counts her breaths. She eats standing up and sleeps facing the door.Then the messages start. A silver sedan parked across the street, watching. A manila envelope with no return address. A text at midnight from a number she doesn't recognize: He's doing it again.Julian Price never raised his voice. He never raised his hand. He didn't have to. Over two and a half years, he dismantled Kira's reality one grain at a time-moving her keys, denying conversations that happened, reorganizing her belongings, isolating her from everyone who might see the pattern. He kept a notebook. Dated entries. Clinical language. Responses graded on a scale. Recovery times logged. Key learnings documented. On an anonymous forum, under the username Architect, he shared his methods with other men like a hunter sharing tips on tracking.Kira wasn't his first.Lena Voss, an interior designer in St. Petersburg, survived the same playbook two years before Kira walked into Julian's life. And now there's a new woman-Sloane-living in Julian's house, wearing his ring, pouring wine in the kitchen where Kira once screamed and was told she was the problem.As Kira digs deeper, she uncovers something that changes everything: Julian accessed her sealed childhood therapy records-sessions she'd had at age nine, after a violent incident at school-and used them to engineer the perfect provocation. The sentence wasn't spontaneous. It was designed. Tested. Deployed. A psychological weapon built from stolen clinical data, calibrated to bypass every defense she had and trigger the one response that would destroy her.Three women. One pattern. And a man who documented his own brilliance so meticulously that the documentation became his undoing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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