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My whole world turned on its axis when Caden dragged me into this roos It’s like hiding froht, he seeps into every pore

And since I can’t hide froht as well e as I can I et another tomorrow

"Davy" Caden sayshis jaw, his neck, the sood kind of adrenaline Not like getting shot or choked, which is all the experience I’ve had lately

"Davy," he groans, his hands flexing on me "Davy," he repeats, his voice more insistent He tries to sit up, but I push him back down

I hold his face in both hands and kiss hishi When my hands drift lower and brush his waistband, he seizes led voice, his chest quivering under me "This isn’t a race We have ti any of us have "Nothing lasts, Caden" Everything I’ve ever cared about leaves And then I’m alone If I have this tiood sand steady beneathanywhere"

"Everyone thinks that" I search the hard lines and shadowed hollows of his face No one thinks they’re going to lose everything That when they wake up they’ll learn that they have a geneticand everyone that ainst hi to take our tiainstto believe that deep, velvety voice I know he means it So to his optiood

I know better

Still, I cuddle against his chest and let his ar to the thuainst my cheek

"Tell me more about who you were," I say

"What do you ri who he was for Halloween or so "Before this," I qualify He was someone else Just like I was someone else No one plans for this This just falls on you Like a ten-story building

"I’ about thisthat he could be the sao to West Point like I probably would have Assurandfather went there, so ave that up, right?"

"Nothing would have come of that anyway I did it foror playing on htly on his chest "You have a unique sound You would have changed your " Once he sa he could reach peopleat his first standing ovation