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This hts and not et up every once in awhile to feed the fire but other than that, I had nothing to do

Froht had fallen There wasn’t ht outside due to the bleak day but there was none at all when night fell

I was staring at the opening, half-asleep and hoping when I woke up I’d be back in my bed in my apartment

I didn’t think o, I’d broken up with my boyfriend of four years, Brian, because he’d refused to take it to the next level, hiht we could date for the rest of our natural born lives was unknown to me What stunk was, I loved him, I missed him and I wanted him back He was fun He was funny He didn’t scowl atSure, the truth was, he was lazy, case in point, hi that he didn’t have to putBut he was fun to be around and furthermore he’d been around for awhile, I was used to hiot paid well because I’d been there for ages but the air was rife with ru very well, and everyone knew that the people who got paid theand even though I had good skills and ood reference, I’d been at the agency that long because the thing I hatedso I avoided it at all costs even though I was in a nowhere job that didn’t challenge me all that much

And I’d decided just before I broke up with Brian that it was tiet on the property ladder I was still in the one-bedroom apartment I’d moved into when I enty-three It was dinky, the landlord refused to paint it (so I did, on my dime), the appliances were old, sucked and broke down a lot and e but I figured it was high time to move on These plans were stalled firstly because Brian and I broke up and secondly because I wasn’t sure I’d be eer

Even with all that, I wanted to go back It was familiar InOkay, so the birds weren’t as colorful and the landscape wasn’t as splendiferous but that only was the case here when a curse hadn’t settled on the land

There were no curses in my world either, another plus

And I’d miss my folks I was an only child (which, if Rosa was my sister here, and she seeet to know her better before she ept away by malevolent creatures) butas they were screa hippies (and I was so far fro frouess) but they were awesome

Not to mention my friends, ere also awesoh, Dash seeto see Noctorno arrive Then I watched as he walked to the hides I was in Then I watched as he lowered his big body to them and pulled off his boots Then I watched as he loosened the laces at his collar Then I watched as he lifted his arers curled into his shirt at the back between his shoulder blades Then I watched his

Holy crap, his back was out-freaking-standing! I didn’t know a back had that ht and hard

Yowza!

Then I saw theht shoulder blade One along the right ribs of his back The last along his waist

This guy was either a regular at bar fights or he was a warrior

I was guessing with his demeanor, both

He stood, walked around and doused the torches He dus on the fire then I watched in the firelight as he walked back tohell, his chest was even better (and reat chest hair, all dark and sexy I was not into chest hair, or I wasn’t until I saw his It was not too little, not too ht

Holy crap!