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He's fuckingme

I buck up, trying to dislodge his body and push at his legs with et why you're so mad"

"Because there's a wo room that wants to have sex with you," I snarl at him

"I don't want to have sex with her, though," he says simply

I wasn't expecting this and it actually takes a little bit of the wind out ofThe fall from joyous elation as I cao to utter disappoints badly

"And I didn't invite her here tonight," Hawke adds

"She said you talked about it last week," I point out triumphantly

"That's right," he adot intimate with each other"

My anger suddenly deflates out of me I suspect this is not only because with just a few si a little off base in ht has just been exhausting all around Fighting with Hawke Revealing truths to Hawke Watching Hawke get angry in one breath and grieving in another Having hi another woman in his house It's really probably ht

"You know, Vale," Hawke says, and his tone is censuring as he looks down atjust now that you did all those years ago"

I gasp in shock "Pardon me?"

"You just thought you had it all figured out Let your emotions rule your actions You were on your way up here without a real clue as to as going on, going to get your clothes and cut ain"

"No," I deny that adaain"

"Looked that way to me," he counters

"Looked to me like you manhandled ain," I tell him petulantly

"You should have just asked as going on down there I introduced you to her for God's sake; shouldn't that have been a clue that I felt coh with the two of you in the same room?"

"That was totally aard," I argue

"Well, fuck yeah it was," he says in exasperation "But had you given me a few minutes, I could have explained it all without you childishly sto away"

And, he al the world's biggest and o and call me childish

So as not to deny him what he truly thinks about h where I take a hunk of skin and hair, and twist it viciously Hawke yelps and flies off ofto down to rub at the injury I just inflicted

This gives me the roo again, he has another thing co on the ht up to him, and raise up on my knees I poke hi childishly How about giving me a little empathy for what I just walked in on You and I had just mended fences not half an hour before You and I had just shared the greatest of intimacies not five minutes before And I walk in to find her hand in the waistband of your towel? Did you honestly expectless than outrage?"

Hawke is now the one who is taken aback He blinks at me in surprise while red creeps into his face as he realizes the truth of aze now harsh and conde, his on the defensive with embarrassment

I wait for hiy, but instead he shakes his head His lips curve upward slightly and his eyes twinkle "Goddamn, but we make quite a couple, don't you think?"

Now I blink at him for just one second of disbelief, and before I can helpfroo around each other He pulls , and kisses me on my shoulder When he pulls back, we look at each other with sparkling eyes and wonder over e've found here with each other again It's old, for sure, but y precipice waiting for the land to just slide out from under you So much still to learn about each other

Hawke picks me up, rolls froet dressed and let o down and officially introduce you to Michelle You'll like her"