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We’re sitting up, kissing, teasing each other Her shirt issomewhere I don’t even knohere her bra is She reaches foroff my own clothes

I close my eyes, and I breathe her in

She’s so perfect

Everything about her just gets me

My inner-bear is growling, begging uy to believe in ht here and now I’d mark her as my own and make her promise not to love anyone else but me I’d tell her that one day, I’ll cos

But I don’t believe in mates

I don’t believe in any of that

So with a fated mate and true love and an eternal com

mitment

Nope

But I do have tonight

And I intend to make it count

I reach for Alicia, and I pull her close I kiss her, I touch her, and I whisper sweet nothings in her ears The s of the car fogged long-ago, and now it’s just the two of us

“Cage,” she whispers “I love you”

It’s my first time

It’s irl

It’sa promise I can’t keep

It’s

The people of Stor of a floozy, but the truth is that I’ve been obsessed with Alicia for a long tiine ht is the very first time I’ve ever truly let loose

And tonight is the night when our relationship ends