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Seth started to turn, but I reached out, grabbing his araze flicked to where I held him "Will you stay?" I asked

One eyebrow rose as he raised his gaze to ot what I wanted without h it was more than the fact that he made an awesome pillow As needy as it sounded, I just didn’t want to be alone right then I didn’t want hirin appeared on Seth’s face "Co day"

Seth left the bathrooainst the raw rush of emotions that swirled inside me like a tornado Tears pricked my eyes, but I willed them back down Once I had it all in check, I opened up my eyes and I saw myself in the oval es under tired eyes, I looked haggard I looked messed-up with my hair in knots and my neck shredded The crescent-shaped bite mark was red My stoh aze tracing overin the otten run over by a truck and trapped in a wind tunnel, I looked like me, but I wasn’t me anymore Like I had said to Marcus, I wasn’t quite sure what I was, and that showed in my eyes

You’ll be whoever you want to be, baby

My throat constricted That was soht hoe applications Back then, it had been all about choosing a career, not so that sounded like destiny or fate, which hat it felt like now

Thinking of ranny hurt, and I couldn’t deal, because all of that was too fresh and it was soo back in tie, and that…that I wasn’t ready to face

I stared at er, and then I pushed away fro it off

Seth was standing where I’d stood earlier His gaze drifted overa deep breath, I nodded "Yeah"

He tilted his head to the side, a s his lips, and it was kind of sad "You’re still a terrible liar"

I was

Seth had left to clean up in the roo while he was gone, scrubbing the rest of the funk off ly coht If I hadn’t, I would’ve stared at the painting of what had to be Apollo, and that would’ve wigged me out more than it already did

So it was dark when I heard the door open, and like a doofus, I’d held one to the other side of the bed first, and then had stopped Pivoting around, he’d walked over to the painting of Apollo and hadunder his breath before he’d taken it down and placed it against the wall

"Sorry," he’d said as he’d turned toward the bed "Really don’t want to fall asleep with his freaky-ass eyes on e sound after everything Nothing was said after that point Seth had gotten into the bed, shifted onto his side, and I’d felt his warm breath on the back of my neck I didn’t think that I could fall asleep with everything crashing around in my head, but I did

And when I woke up, I was sprawled across Seth It was ridiculous Really My head was on his chest,on a very interesting part of hi to beco, but he also had one ar on my hip, under the covers, and the other was curved around my forearm

I didn’t daresteadily, and his heart beating underin his ar people did when they were in a relationship, the whole cuddling thing, but it ain It also s, like his defined chest under my cheek And those hard abs under my arm I couldn’t help it Every part of me was hyperaware of howand lean, and as I lay there, I didn’t think about all the dark and terrible things that aiting at the edges of h me like dirty, messy slush

The hand on my waist suddenly flexed, and my eyes widened Was he awake? The answer caers splayed A ripple of tingles spread across hs I squeezedofareas I should et off him before…well, before my hor on top of us I shifted, straightening htened, as did the one on ruff with sleep and soh

For a ainst the inside of , the one between his Holy crappers, I really did feel him My eyes popped open, and I started to move, but the hand on ainst his hip, and the contact sent a jolt through er No It wasn’t just a feeling I knehat it was Arousal Want Desire Lust Whatever I’d felt it before, many times before, and it made my breath reedy, and my body acted out of instinct, not common sense I moved my hips forward and was rewarded--orof sensations that started at h me