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He’s clearly dangerous, so this fashion contradiction h at his implied harmlessness

He whirls around, puzzled "Funny?" he asks me, his eyebrows up into his forehead with suspicion "This is funny?" It’s his turn to laugh, but it’s clear he does not think it’s funny "You have a strange sense of humor, Har… per" He adds in the last syllable and tilts his head a little to see if I’ll react to the naainst the wall as he makes another approach This tiainst the wall on either side ofto avoid his stare

"Now, answer Do you think I ca fro my stitched wound, and I wince "Cared for you" His voice lowers at this It’s barely a whisper "Cleaned you up Sewed you back together Dressed you in the sweetest things I could find in your "

I s hard as I picture this inme

"And then wrapped you up in a blanket and slept next to you for forty-eight hours as you came out of your pathetic overdose of benzodiazapa them anymore!"

He places a hand overyou did that day," he stresses "So you think I came and did all that, and then raped you?"

I look away, embarrassed

"Is your cunt sore?"

I snap e

"Is it?"

I shake my head no

"Well, then you can be sure, Harper I did not fk you Because I don’t do anything half-ass And if I was gonna fk you, believe me, you’d feel the effect ofon your ain"

Oh God! I’ froers slip under my chin and force my attention back to him

"Look at me"

I raiseHe stares back at me for a mo madness of heat we had under the pier the other day His lips graze against mine, just a soft flutter of a kiss, and then he pulls back before I can react "Did you think about our kiss under the pier afterward?" I blush and try to look away, but his fingertips are back onme to look hiood?"

I can’t help h Thisyou dreamed? Because I can do better I can do so ain "No, it was fine"

"Fine? Kissing you should be so much more than fine"