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I prepared for the closeness as he slid his hand under s and behind h voice barely above a whisper

A shiver shot through ht that hid my terror as the pressure of his eht the inside ofemotions I interlocked my hands around his neck, his clean, familiar scent so close my head dropped of its own volition into the nook of his neck

I’d never been ainst mine with every step he took as he clutchedhands imprinted into my flesh as he carried me to my bedroom without a word and sat htly in ainst my chest as I turned away from hih It hung open in the back, since it was draped over the front of h to keep it closed in the back I rushed to bring the covers up in tie of the bed directly behind rabbed the blanket was too late I’d been too focused on uard and hadn’t noticed the towel slipping away frohis intense gaze on the wound The clear bandage I’d placed over it to protect the stitches fro

My head dropped I’d never felt uglier

From the corner of my eye, I saw him hunch down and fall to his knees I closedHe wasn’t solely to bla It wasn’t he who flew through the red light and nearly destroyed et in that car without a seat belt It was he who put hts were interrupted by the touch of his war it, frolance at hi feverishly as the nerve endings injittered and buzzed to life My eyelids snapped shut as Logan eon to pull the bandage away slowly To entle and slow

My eyes opened gradually and cast down, unable to look at hie aside I felt the pads of his fingertips trailing along the tender stitches that ran halfway down h Doctors said a scar was iery could make it near invisible in the future I told them no Not that I could afford the option, anyway, but this was me now This was the mark on my body that reminded me I took a chance and lost

My eyes fluttered as the pads of his fingertips continued their slow descent to where the stitches ended

"Hideous, I know," I breathed finally, my body tense, ean peered up at uish in his eyes

"You’re beautiful, strong, and what every ers continuing back up, gaze locked with mine, "proves you’ve lived life, but unfortunately trusted an unworthythe tears not to spill forth from the way his soft voice faded into a broken whisper A beat of silence was followed bywith butterflies when I felt his lips cover the top of the stitches My hands clutched the towel e to reach out to hied breath

With sensual tenderness surrounding his unexpected and gentle touch, I watched with half-lidded eyes as his lips pulled back, then placed another open-mouth kiss down a bit further He kissed h and I was left with a tear-stained face and swollen heart

Before I could speak, Logan tilted his head to the side and stared up at , contentthe blanket over ly

Speechless, I watched as he strode over to my dresser and opened the top drawer

I shuddered Not that drawer

With a boyish grin that lit a twinkle in his eye and a cocked, playful eyebrow, he looked back over his shoulder He was holding a pair of yellow-and-white polka-dot panties

"Interesting choices you have"