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Twenty o, I’d retreated into the dark, accohts about today’s visit to the cemetery andmy wounds when William had entered and i to have him here, but impulse alone had driven me to ask for his comfort

And he’d offered it with no aim to take it any further He’d stroked my hair and held me in his arms, where I felt so safe Like I could sleep for a decade wrapped in his iron eod of sleep, for the blessings of peaceful, uninterrupted rest

What did thisthan before? For the love of the goddess…

My heart raced, but it wasn’t just fro fear put ry, burning lust that wanted more, more, more

When William’s callused hand clasped the tender skin of ers wasup the lust a fewlevel of our kisses

I placedover every plane I itched to get under his shirt and vowed to have his clothes off in the next half hour This hot hunk of er if I had anything to say about it

Needing to be even closer to hiainst his chest

He let out a long, hot breath against my mouth, which was cut short by a noise at the door Another person in the room "Hey Jenna, have you seenco in fro frozen in her spot

Slowly, sluggishly, I straightened whilepulled away fro me fro directly at his cousin’s fiancé His eyes were on the floor like a chastened schoolboy, and that kind of annoyed me

What on earth did either of us have to be asha adults eren’t in any sort of committed relationship with other people, for heaven’s sake

We sat next to each other on the bed and I adjusted uy, he would have had his hands upthe first ently cradled lanced at hi with heroing to be sober enough to drive hoet us Heath passed out, and we’ve been drawing all over hi the night on your living roo for er, re fixedly at her stepbrother’s bowed head and didn’t respond right away Finally, she roused herself "Oh, yeah…ue of twenty-four"

I looked away and Williae in his jeans So aard

Mia walked over to er, then stuffed it into her back pocket Turning back at me, she said, "Jenna, can I…talk to you for a sec?"