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When I finally found the ithal to flutter my lashes open and smile up at the man above me, I discovered a total mess He’d squeezed his eyes closed and his face was so red it was al his breath His arms trembled with effort as he continued to brace them on either side of me and keep himself at a distance

He was about to snap

"Knox?" I reached up and touched his cheek

He opened his eyes, and tears dripped fro onto reat heaving breath froht I can’t shut it off I can’t stop loving you"

"I know, baby I know" Cupping both my palms around his face, I wiped more tears off his cheeks with my thumbs

He sobbed out his distress as he leaned down onto me fully and pressed his forehead to mine "I missed you so s around his waist, he surged deeper within htly as possible, until ere as close to becoet

His ainst mine It was carnal and sweet and about the best,kiss of my life With one hand in my hair and the other on my ass to keep led with mine, and he fuckedit all,a bundle of nerves that just couldn’t withstand the iasht, I screa to hiainst asped, petting the back of his shoulder as I tried to coh, but it left s securely locked around him so he could never leave ht, and I loved it Stroking his back and hoping to entice him to stay, I used my nails to occasionally scrape over bare flesh He moaned his pleasure and I preened happily

"I should get off you," he eventually hter "Don’t you dare"

He didhis face down until his cheek was cushioned against my breasts, but otherwise, he held his ar anywhere

The occasional sniff and wetness on my chest told me he continued to cry But he didn’t want me to see it just yet, so I let hi to say I told you so?" he finally asked, no heat behind his voice, just curiosity

"Muid and happy as I kept caressing ht Maybe toain"

He let out a breath, then said, "City?"

"Yeah?"

"I really did ed my arms around his shoulders "Ito be here in the ? Or is this just a dreahed out his relief and relaxed against me fully "Good"

I swear, he fell asleep in that very instant But that was fine withto follow

When I woke to daylight pressing at my closedcurtains, he was still there I was still there, and ere still wrapped naked together

We’d shifted position throughout the night until I was the one draped halfway on top of hi on his heartbeat I lifted rown into a man, someone who barely looked like the boy I once knew, but I liked this version of hiave hi how Mason had toldwhat had happened to hi how he’d suffered and what he’d had to do to survive, but it made me feel closer to him And I loved hiht had been enough to keep hiain If he pushedin, I kissed his facial scar in three different places

I kneake when his lips tightened into a smile

"Do I sense the return of hted he re beauty require another true love’s kiss to awaken him?"