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Jen nodded "Better choice of words"

Cynthia packed up her stuff and turned to go Just before she opened the door, she turned back and looked at Jen, avoiding Decebel’s gaze "Just in case you ondering, it is alright for you to be intiet it on like Donkey Kong?"

Cynthia let out a chuckle "H Why don’t you stick to Curious George just to be on the safe side?" With that, she opened the door and closed it quietly behind her

The sone She couldn’t look at herwas about to snap and she knew that he had been through enough already She bit her lip in atteether and turned her head away froently pulled her chin, so that she was looking directly at hi?" She asked

"What do you mean?"

"I mean in the In-Between," he flinched, as she spoke of the hell he had been in "How did you survive watching all of those things for so long?"

"I just kept telling myself that it wasn’t real" He stretched out beside her and propped up his head on one elbow

"I tried to tell myself that I tried Dec, but it felt…" Jen closed her

"Shh, baby, it wasn’t real, none of that happened" Decebel rested his hand on the sently rubbed her, "my touch, our love, our baby, all of this is real"

Jen was nodding, though the tears had begun to fall Decebel reached over and pulled her into his arled to keep his rage contained as he felt the strongest woman he had ever et her to talk He didn’t ask her how he could help, he just held her, and if that was all she ever wanted froh

"Not for h their bond "Make et Dec"

Decebel pulled back so that he could look into her blue eyes

"It’s too soon Jennifer, give yourself tiently brushed her hair froet aith tellingyou that I need you I keep seeing and feeling those faces, those hands," Jen let out a choked sob as she stared up into his a"

Decebel sucked in a breath as he saw the fear in her eyes Fear that he would reject her, fear that he would be disgusted by her, fear that he would no longer want her

Decebel growled at her as he leaned down His lips caressed her face gently until they hovered just above hers "You never have to beg I’ive you what you need What do you need baby?" His lips brushed against hers as he spoke "Tell me what you need Jennifer and it’s yours"

Jen trembled as she felt his hand slip under her shirt He stroked her abdoers up the side of her body tracing her s