Chapter 519 Lust & Found:>7

• Tears started in her eyes as she realised she'd moved too fast for him, that he was so deeply hurt, so damaged, that anything more she did tonight would just push him away all over again, even further this time, and then he truly would be gone forever.
• "Robbie," she began, her eyes bright with unshed tears, "I don't know what happened just now, but I promise you, I will try and make up to you for what you lost, and for what I did. Please don't lock me out the way I did with you, you're better than that. I found you again; maybe we can find each other this time. Oh, Robbie, you were my big brother, and I should have held you close; let me keep hold of you now, I swear I won't ever let you go again, on my life!"
• Robbie's head was whirling. He wanted to believe her, she sounded sincere, but this was Casey! The one person in the world he knew, with a rigid and unbending certainty, he couldn't trust, selfish, irresponsible, cruel, capricious and uncaring as she was. How did he know this wasn't just an act, a way of taking something more from him, looking for another way to deprive him of what he had?