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This high up, the as vicious, lashing out at you as if it were angry you’d dared to come out and experience it I felt Arlo’s presence as he caaze away from the cityscape

Even so high up, I could hear the faint trickling sounds of life down below I could visualize people yelling at each other, honking their horns and waving their fists in their anger I is in each other’s ears and children crying for their mothers to buy them more sweets

I could practically ss from the street vendors, the yeasty scent of the fresh bread that filtered out from the open doorways of cafés and bakeries If I closed ine I was so could touchstories upon stories above it all, it was an al that it was true

“I know you want answers,” he finally said after a long moment of silence

I turned ainst the banister, the wind now more of an intimate caress

“But you being dragged deeper into this—into a darkness that is unforgiving—coht and backlit by the cityscape “I don’t think you understand how—”

“Dangerous it is?” All the whys bounced in aze drifting lower His htly as I’d cut him off, but he still finished his sentence

“So that invisible thread between us tighter until I feared it would either snap before we made contact or irrevocably keep me ensnared

I forced h the fog that had suddenly filled my head “I can handle precautions I can even handle violence” I’ve seen enough of it “I just don’t want lies” I didn’t knohat Ithose words, but his expression told , and I felt like the flickering in his eyes told ardless

I clearedhold of rab the rest of o back there soon so there was no need to get lanced back at hi me, but the look on his face was conflicted

“Tell rab what you need”

Noasmoments “No offense, but I usually wait until the third date before having the guy riffle through my underwear drawer,” I teased, but the way his pupils dilated after I spoke had any huoose buain