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My office feels empty without her in it The sun vanished behind clouds

She stood there looking atherself to Jo, unable to see they weren’t remotely the same Yes, I’d casually fucked Jo One doesn’t casually fuck Danielle O’Malley

Her energy is nuclear, white-hot and pure as the new-driven snow Passion is where she’s united, suffering no conflicts I ed of pure energy and e

Another man will experience her raw self-discovery, the volatile nuances of her first ti, face lu in her face so brilliantly it had illu skin

I still feel the burn of her hands ondown e turn

But a stor down on the last vestige of her innocence

She needs a slow iives far more than it takes, a man ill dance her slowly, tenderly, into love She needs soood experience with a norhim will make her more like him

I knew the child I know the wole lover Dani craves experience, challenge, change, terowth She needs to taste it all I understand that

One day she’ll choose awith a wolf of her own at her side, equals in everything, and when that time comes, she’ll need to know she’s chosen the absolute best

I aive her virginity to Dancer Soon She’s on fire

She wears my brand

I’ll feel far too h I aht seem my most eternal yet

I will never be her first

But one day I’ll be her last

DANI

I stepped out of the shower and toweledaround in the kitchen getting dinner ready

There was only this ht ofa homemade pizza, the promise of a movie we’d pauseunder the sun