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I moan

‘Tell me you know that’

‘I do,’ I breathe

He picks up his pace slightly, working in and out on sainst mine as he puffs short, harsh breaths He starts to shake over me I’m there, too

‘Let me taste you, Olivia’

I let hi him as he tenses and stills aboveThe violent shudder that rides throughinto his h his and hold hily, long past our float down

That was his goodbye

‘Noe can do this your way,’ he says quietly againstup on my scent

Having a silent stern ithmy disturbed mind repeatedly that I can do this, I shift beneath hi him to lift Our dath insideI can’t show any signs of hesitance or pain, which is treony at the thought of what he’s being pushed to do He looks down at es of his mind, too, so I force a small smile and lift my lips to kiss him chastely ‘Let’s take a shower’

‘As you wish’ He reluctantly detaches himself from me on a deep inhale and helpsmy way to the bathroo, drawn-out affair ofit just so overwhen a new shorter layer refuses to stay where he’s placed it His beautiful face, all bunched in slight annoyance, brings a glirow back,’ I placate him

His eyes flick to mine and he surrenders the lock of hair ‘I wish you’d never cut it, Olivia’

My heart sinks ‘You don’t like it anymore?’

He shakes his head, frustrated, and takes my neck to leadwhat drove you to cut it in the first place I hate that you did that to yourself’

We arrive in the bathrooesturing for me to enter the cubicle I want to tell Miller howhe’s done to hi the delicate ue and accept his coether is precious and the ht I don’t want any disagreeh on his silent order and step into the shower, iel fro so the bottle from my hand

I don’t stand for it I need this ‘No,’ I retort softly, reclai it ‘We do this ether, working up a lather Then I spend an age scanning every fine piece of hiure out the best place to start It’s all calling tome to placeforward, taking rip ‘How about here?’ He placesthis shower until you’ve felt every part ofdeep in th I need to let hi away fast with every word spoken and every touch exchanged

‘Stay with uiding a gentle caress of my hands across his skin, and I watch his chest expand as my eyes climb the planes of his muscles until I’m at deep pools of blue pain ‘Feelback tears that are de eyes But I find it That strength I need to get h this – is found amid the desolation and I step forward, close to his body, and begin hs, allowing his heavy eyes to close and his head to drop back a little He’s exhausted I know he is E taken out of him I find s forward a little ‘Better’

I concentrate on Miller and hi else to break downMy hands glide lazily everywhere, from his shoulders to his pecs, his stohs, knees, shins, feet Then I workhim to do his back My face contorts on a wince when I’ently, then turn the hideous sight away fro down is the only sound Miller isthe water there to wash away the soap, I see his eyes still closed and I wonder if I am his only focus I don’t want to consider that oing to see through his plan, how far he needs to go with the Russian wo to rid the world of Charlie But I know that if he was thinking of hts, his blue eyes slowly appear and he blinks that wonderful lazy blink I can’t quite disguise h