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“I haven’t slept much I can’t”

My phone began to buzz with all the notifications I’d purposely dodged Against e the screen lowered at an angle so Judas couldn’t see There were a few different texts but only one I wanted to read right then With a desperation I was ashamed of, I opened it

Dad: I love you Please come home

I stared at his text until my eyes burned, whether from the screen or a neave of tears I refused to shed didn’t register Was it pathetic to consider this an olive branch of sorts?

Aware Judas was pressed up against me, I dimmed my screen and sat the phone back down before he read the text exchange Just when I started to think he’d dozed off because how quiet it was, he spoke

“Did you dreairls do?”

Instantly confused, I silently repeated that back toup the prom?”

“Is that yes?”

“Get dressed up like a princess and go dance in a roo Pesadilla that’s a fresh form of hell My old school? I would be all for it”

“You’re already a--”

“Judas if you call ain, so help me”

He laughed lowly, pulling me closer

“Do you have a pro fantasy?”

“I have higher aspirations than that Why? Did you want to be my queen?”

I got the feeling we’d moved on fro to bring up in the first place

“Why do I have to be your queen? I’d rather be my own”

“Good answer” It felt like he sainst the top of my head “You can sleep now, principessa I’m here”

I was teain It wasn’t worth the wasted breath I closedhere

CHAPTER TWELVE

Morning passed in segmented blurs

I could rehs while it was still dark outside The sex itself wasn’t anything over the top, it was the way he took control and fuckedhis ti in and out of me with deep, calculated thrust I ca softly into his mouth

I fell back asleep shortly after that, but it wasn’t long before I oken up and had a latte all but shoved into my hand