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between her and VS.
    “Your—your sister, what exactly did she do before—before—”
    Ellis shrugged slightly. “She was a stylist of some sort. She travelled all over the world buying clothes for the boutiques here in the States and also for some wealthy women who she referred to as having the money but no sense of style. And that it was a good thing they could afford someone who had it aplenty,” she smiled sadly as her eyes flooded. “She always got herself, me and even Kris clothes on her clients.”
    “Did she ever tell you where she went?”
    She shook her head. “No. But she always called or texted right before she jetted off, then dropped by when she came back. She would be gone weeks, even months at a time. Once she was gone a full year, I missed her. I miss her now.” A tear rolled down her cheek unchecked and Dale quickly gathered her to him in a fierce hug—exactly what Damien wanted to do.
    Clenching his fists at his side Damien stared at them and admitted; whether or not she was VS, she wasn’t his anymore. That hurt more than he ever thought possible.
    Could it be that he really had fallen for VS? Did he really love her? Was love what drove him to find her all these years, or was it just his obsession to protect her? Either way, he needed to leave, he couldn’t stay here being haunted by her face and not be able to touch or kiss her like he wanted to.
    “I need to leave,” he blurted out, turning around the room and looking for his travel bag.
    “Damien, you don’t have to.”
    He heard the worry in Dale’s voice and turned to them. They were still clutched in each other’s arms and he knew for sure he needed to leave or Ellsa wouldn’t be the only relative who went psycho.
    “Where is my bag?”
    “Still in the car,” Dale answered, disentangling himself from Ellie.
    “Good, drop me off at the train station. I need to leave, I need to—” Find VS. He hoped that she was still out there because he was sure he wouldn’t be able to handle it if Ellie was lying about who she really was.
    “Damien, listen. If Ellsa is your Victoria Secret, then nothing has changed except that we’re looking for the same woman now. We need to find her for all our sakes and soon.”
    Damien scoffed. “There is no way finding her would benefit me. I’ve wasted enough time, I need—”
    “To find VS,” Dale finished, “What if Ellsa is VS? You need to find out and once we find her, you can decide what to do next. You need to put this obsession to rest, Damien, it’s ruining you. You need to go back to your normal life, to who you used to be before VS happened to you.”
    To go back to his normal life? To his only concern being himself? He couldn’t remember what that was like. VS had commanded everything in his life for the last five years. It had been all about her. He stared at Ellie for a long while. Her eyelashes were wet with tears, dread etched in her face, her arms wrapped around herself. If VS was psycho Ellsa, yeah it was about time he put her hold on his life to rest.
     
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    Ellsa sat at the bar, licking her wounds with the help of a few tequilas after getting thrown out of her sister’s home. This person wasn’t her. She didn’t go to dingy places, drink cheap liquor and feel sorry for herself. She was better than this and yet she couldn’t help but wallow in the gutter.
    How dare they humiliate her like that? And worst of all, in front of Kris and Audrey? Ellie might be her sister, but she was going to regret what she did. And Carson, he had no idea what he’d just started.
    She drove so far just to get away from the humiliation. She didn’t even know the name of the stupid town.
    A man sat on the stool next to her, ogling at her like he was seeing a woman for the first time. “Hi honey, how you doing tonight?”
    “Get away from me,” Ellsa uttered with disgust.
    He held a lock of her hair and rubbed it between his fingers. “What’s wrong? I was just trying to be