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“What about right now?”

Voices grew louder in the background “Liv, coo”

“I can’t” Regret laced her voice “I told Marisa I’d help her with study prep for her , as usual”

“Tell me about it” I dropped my head onto the back of the couch “I’m on the road for five days this time”

“I’ll clear the entire day you’re back” The silence hung between us “I’ll miss you”

“I’ll miss you too”

“Liv, we’ve got to get to the lab”

“Co,” she called out to her rooht, Ford”

The nightly phone calls fro while I was on the road I ht have been a pro athlete, but she pushed herself to the li

Most nights had ended with the gentle rhyth I listened to for an e time It became the steady soundtrack ofled up in the sheets on my bed

On nights I played, the energyother than her once I got off the ice She cleared her schedule to watch and wasn’t on the verge of passing out the second the call connected Those were the nights herIt wasn’t the ga buzzer or the roar of the crowd; it was my name on her lips

The wet sound of her fingers pu need to buryEach time I swore I’d hold off until I could see her in person, not torture ame I bolted into my hotel room for the call

Sweaty all over again, I’d lie there with my dick inin my ear

“When you’re back toht, I need to feel you inside me”

“Short of an extinction-level event, there’s nothing on this Earth that will stop rabbed a towel and cleaned myself up Every reservation I’d had, every hesitation was eroded with each call