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I pursed aze away froet as sharp and as pointed as the blade of a knife when he was using them to peel layers away from whoever they were trained on

"You have more to offer than your dick, Cy" He was smart, driven, protective, and he pushed He pushed and pushed until he shoved you right into wanting to be the kind of person who could th Not tosure everyone he loved was taken care of He gave up his own life and his own chance at love in order to preserve a legacy that he never wanted He sacrificed his own happiness and future tothat would always be theirs He lost everything so that his father’s hard work andhis own neck because he didn’t knoas going on with one of his siblings

He was absolutely a good tiht about a s to the table than his i to settle for a few hours in the dark, without experiencing all the other a herself and him

"I know that, Leo, but I don’t choose to offer more than what’s in my pants to just any woman I’et what I had, and made me dream about what I could haveuntil you" As always, when he said stuff like that, I felt it all the way through my body His words had power When he spoke what he habout another person

I cleared my throat and lifted a hand to absently rub at my tender shoulder "We don’t make any sense"

It hurt to say, but it was true I wanted this consuled around us to have reason and rationale but it didn’t, whichit seem not only impossible but also wasteful This kind of e to two people who could do so to people who could fully appreciate it, instead of the two of us, ere scra so hard to exploit it in the little bit of ti, ere rushing through it, trying to absorb it all before it burned us both out Cy had scorchedto torch hi to be bloay

He reached out and grabbed a piece ofout of control due to the weather The curl he tugged on sprang right back into its tight ringlet rin at me "It’s been s hell to your doorstep I don’t knohy it’s you whothrough the ly and a lot harder than it has been these last few years"

I couldn’t think of anything to say to that because I didn’t want to tell him that I was terrified of what my lonely would look like now that I realized that’s what I’d been all along Withfroot hohing heavily on his uys who shot at us have Emrys and Sutton?"

His jaw clenched and ahim look fierce and ferocious This was a man ould take care of his own, noabout that protective streak that soothed my own abandoned heart If Cy ever lovedon this Earth that would drive him away His love was a bond that couldn’t and wouldn’t be broken,over erous

"I don’t know, but I do know that Sutton will do everything in his power to keep your girl safe if they were taken" That’s what I was afraid of Euns tried to take her, the h him first That didn’t bode well, for either of them

"Why would they take the the to keep everyone away fro but I disliked the answers he was giving me evenanyone where the clearing is, but e in case the rangers show up Or even worse, the DEA" His tone was heavy with dread but I appreciated the fact that he wasn’t trying to placate es?" My voice broke and htly thatat this point and it’s better not to speculate If we start doing that, then it’s going to o off halfcocked without a plan We can’t do that Right noe’re operating like we’re going in there to pulllike we’re storet us is panic and pain" He flicked his head to the side again as the rain picked up and ether

"I don’t kno you can be so cal Inside, I feel like there are a thousand buzzing bees trying to burst through an andevery scrap of self-control I have not to freak out and fall apart I’ve never been so scared in my life" I refused to think about what rounded She was my port in the storet her back That was the only option I was allowing