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Like hell she is

"Fine, I’ to bed then This conversation is done"

"Nathaniel,"her off

"Goodnight," I bark, before disappearing into my room

Fuck it all

CHAPTER 26

AVERY

A war me froht to be seen I can feel the hard, muscled body beside mine and I shiver instantly

"Nate?" I whisper

"Sorry, baby," hehis nose down my cheek and over "

"You hurtan ar ht"

"No," I rasp "It wasn’t"

"Things get tense around here and I lose my shit--it isn’t your fault I shouldn’t have co toto help"

"They have no idea," he says, his voice a lohisper "No fucking idea how hard I’ to fix the unfixable"

I fall silent and he keeps running his nose overive up onup," I say, my voice barely above a whisper

He stokes a thuto re ue touches mine, I remember It’s not because of lust, or desperation, it’s because of a soul-binding connection that I can’t turn away from--it’s because he makes me burn, deep inside asp as his oes down my throat "We can’t Not here"

"No, baby," he says, sucking on my neck "We can’t, but it doesn’t er"

I close my eyes and let him kiss me all over His mouth travels down oes back up He kissesback I can hear his deep breathing in the silence and I know it’s taking everything for hiet in here?" I ask, running h the " He laughs softly

"You broke into your own house?"

"So like that I’d break into a damned prison if it meant I could feel you"

I close o If we get busted"