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He rolls us over oncehi warm kisses to my neck and chest

And when he slides inside ain, for a little while, I don’t

Chapter 16

After Marcus brings ain, we both doze, exhausted and spent

I wake up as the light outside is changing frolow to the hazy blue of post-sunset

Shit I have to work tonight

My body feels both sated and sore, and I’e bed with Marcus’s heavy araze down at his hand, at the nu washes over me

That date will always be irrevocably embedded in my memory

My entire life changed that night

But somehow, I think Marcus’s did too

I brush ers over the scars on my chest, then down my ruined arm There are a few near my elbow that I can’t see because of the tattoos, but I know exactly where they are

Was any part of that night fate?

Or was it all just random luck?

Turningform The lines of his face are just as hard and intense in sleep as they are when he’s awake, but so around hislashes brush his cheeks, and he looks almost boyish like this At peace

“You’re right It wasn’t an accident,” I whisper, my voice hardly more than a breath