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"What was your dark moment of the day?" I asked

"Your frown" She exhaled as her eyes locked withmy drunkenness"

"I’m sorry," I said, with a thickness inyou fall earlier"

She pressed her fingers to her lips "It’s okay I already forgave you"

She headed back toward her house,on her tiptoes I made sure she made it inside the house before I headed to bed When we both got to our bedrooms, we took a few moments to stand by our s and stare at each other

"You felt it, too, didn’t you?" she whispered across toof our kiss

I didn’t reply, but yeah

I felt it

Chapter Twelve

Elizabeth

That night after Tristan and I left our sills, I lay down in ined hiined what she’d been like I wondered if she’d smelled like roses or lilies, I wondered if she’d been a cook or a baker, I wondered how ined her with him, and for a moment I even pretended that I heard her whisper she loved hi her closer, the gentle touch to her spine as she curved into his body, the way she called out his naainstHe war a word; he loved her quietly with his hands His fingers trailed down her neck and she moaned as he reached the curves of her breasts Tristan… My breaths picked up as I felt hi fro her nipple before he placed it between his lips and sucked, nibbled,herself to him Tristan…

My hands moved lower across my skin as Tristan filled lided between her pulsing thighs as I slowly slid a finger insideTristan brought to

But she was gone now

It was only hiainst ue danced around er slip into ers moved faster, fell deeper, and pushed harder as he worked me up to a sweat I whispered his naue tasteed for ently, forcefully Oh ers faster, feelingfro into the depths of never He fed ed for ainst his lips, and I did I collapsed with his touch insideof bliss, unable to reood

I’ood

And then I opened my eyes and saw the darkness of hs My pantiesof bliss dissipated

I’ood

I looked over at Steven’s side of the bed, and a level of disgust filledbesidemy ith confusion I blinked once and reached out to touch hione