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As I came around the bed, he shivered visibly Oh, I kneas scent-sensitive An aroma carries him back in time, makes him relive the associated memories, feel the emotion of that moment The way it affects him, I’d call it a weakness, but how could I pass up the opportunity to torment him a little? How heady that I still have the power; I wouldn’t have guessed he was the steadfast sort

I lances we attracted ere together I’-lirow cankles, and there’s always a bit of kitsch about me, no matter how hard I try

In the last year and a half, I gave up on elegance and worked on developing ypsy skirts that show off s are readily available here

He inhaled deeply as I got in bed, his eyes fixed on the décolletage of own I swear I felt the heat of his look tracing the satin trirew a nized his tone The perfu the last tiht Looking at his et naked and roll around with hiive in, I lay down and pulled the sheet up to my chin

As if he knew, Chance touched ood on you"

"Thanks"

I’d never been a redhead while ere together, and for hi hair acted as a quiet kink He said it was likelove to a different wo onto ained the soft luhts City noises ca ," I said, glancing over ht, he looked as sad as I’ve ever seen hireed softly

"Christ What do you want froainst the headboard, he s along his knuckles "Only what I alanted Everything"

Southern Cohto give it back"

For abut silence from his side of the bed He knew I spoke the truth because while he said the right things, showed affection where appropriate, he always ement Since I’m backward at relationships, I didn’t notice at first, but it caht I looked up into his face andthe distance in his expression, coht have beenlove to o because I needed hiive Soet past that little door in his head He’s afraid of investing himself utterly, so he preserves the distance in case the relationship breaks down; it’s a sad, self-fulfilling prophecy because it inevitably does

"I’d forgotten how you do that," he said at last

"Do what?"

"Eviscerate me with a feell chosen words"

Irritated, I turned to face hio to sleep already? We never talked about our relationship in bed, and now that we don’t have a relationship to discuss, it seems a poor time to break with tradition"

His tone was mild as he slid down "We do, actually Or do you deny that we’re friends? Maybe you’d let just anyone sleep in your bed"

Well, that hurt, and I couldn’t controlhis second reh it was beyond reat" He stared up at limpsed then the ould slice each other up with our broken edges over the next week or so Christ It couldn’t have been easy to ask me for help I’d left hi roles either The heart of a Sicilian mafia don lurked inside him; he adopted a "you are dead to me" attitude toward those alked away, and none of this mattered anyway It was about Yi Min-chin, e both loved I could put the past aside long enough to find her or learn her fate

Inhaling, I braced h to put ht this was some kind of trick at first, butyouto offer a little syain, like that would fix it