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“I had it all planned” He finally finds his voice again,me backward smoothly to the bed He hauls the coverlet away and lays th

“It was going to be a little more romantic than a hotel room”

Josh, thinking about romance? My heart can’t take it He captures entle I could cry

“See,” he says into my mouth “I don’t hate you, Lucy”

His tongue touches ingme

I was always covering for you

I sigh, and he breathes it in “That’s it”

I stretch and wriggle underneath his weight “You’re so big It gets me hot”

“And you’re so tiny It ether It’s all I’ve been thinking about since the day we met”

“Oh, sure The momentous day you looked at me, head to toe, then out the ”

He’s giving ers into et back here? To this tender place after the blaze of anger burned us both

up? It’s so sweet, so coentle and Josh

“If we do this tonight, I’et weird on me” His eyes are sole to have one of your infamous freak-outs?”

“I don’t know Very possibly” I try for a joke but he’s not remotely amused

“I wish I kneon mine