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I could fall asleep in his ar

Eh I’d waited forever for this un when I’d met this th and certainly gained a greater worldview because of the danger we’d faced, it now hitsafe in his embrace, with our son, was all I wanted

Not the botto out of iven me when he’d started down the path of our relationship and ht

I had to ht

We had to ht

The downside was that neither of us had ever been in love before, had ever done the ro, had never been seriously involved with anyone Until that day our eyes had locked

I wasn’t one-hundred percent sure how to san with the basics

“I love you,” I said as I snuggled close to hi

“I love you, too” He held ht “I’m sorry about all of this, baby” Apparently, that conversation still festered in his mind, too

“Dane, we’ve had plenty of perfect mo the way that isn’t even your doing, but that of the society”

“I don’t want to talk about the society,” he said, his tone terse “Honestly, Ari, if I never have to think again about all that rong—”

“Don’t think about it, then” I shifted out of his ar his waist “No er Put it all out of your ain”

He did Yet I could tell he stewed over all that had happened and reuard down

I wasn’t a fan of having Aht for more than a short span of time when he was off with Rosa, but for the first few days Dane was ho to A him as a human mannequin for her latest creations Kyle also apparently found it safer and wiser to whisk ether—that meant Kyle wasn’t visible and Dane was too preoccupied to consider Kyle was the one looking after Amsel

That didn’t last long, though After a few days of really hot sex—our own version of the honeymoon we’d never had—Dane was less inclined to let Kyle have his fair share of Amsel time And clearly felt the need to stake his claiations