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Instead, I cling to her, and when I feel her body becos around her

“I can’t ainst o

“Just hs, and it runs all the way downto feel it again, and her laugh turns into a moan “I’m not finished with you”

“I’ll never leave you again,” she vows, sitting up and looking down at me “I’m home”

“Forever,” I say, and she nods

I hold her hips as she begins to ain

Chapter Eight

Kory

“Call out sick,” Henry says as he trails kisses down my spine

“I can’t! I just started working there” Though I really wish I could At this et out of this bed I didn’t know I could ever be this happy I’ hio I could have spent the past ten years waking up to this

“Maybe I’m your new boss”

I roll over to look up at hiht No evidence that his words are a joke “You didn’t!” I snap I want to be annoyed, but part oflike that

“Don’t like the idea of soht as can be Then they suddenly drop away “What the fuck?”

His gaze drops to the bruise that still lingers on my ribs All the playfulness we just had washes away I don’t want to think about Jason right now

“I…ah—”

“Don’t do that You’re about to lie” My eyes fall closed “I want a name,” he demands, and I open my eyes How does he know? Maybe he can just read me well…

“Jason He’s my old boss” Henry is out of the bed before I can finish my sentence His phone is at his ear, his expression e for hioal is I want Jason to pay for what he did but also want to move past it He could do it to so to face him either

Henry catchesto the floor It’s then I realize that I’runts, and I find myself back on the bed, pinned under him

“Never inafter me” He smiles at me before his mouth meets mine in a deep kiss I et to work I push on his chest and he lets o