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“Cheers,step was a full workout Shouldn’t the pain have faded by now?

Soon it was just the two of us, and Shan gingerly placed me on the couch and instructed rab his first aid kit

Exhaustion hit , and not only the physical exhaustion To be honest, I’d been physically drained since the chase But now my brain was desperate to power down too

Maybe it felt a little good to be home after all

So it was a crying sha to disappear when Shan returned It’d been like this for a couple months now, and I hated it Nobody wanted to tense up in their own home And I wasn’t some shallow fuck who said it was all because of his neorkout regi definition back to his muscles, because that couldn’t have been further froh extra-holiday-pounds, teek-flu-froht, the occasional comfortable periods, and New Year’s resolutions results

It was his evident coh to walk around in sweats and nothing else, to be , to move some personal space boundaries and be more open—all of which screith my head

The rew, and the less relaxed I beca back anys wouldn’t fade

Shan got down on one knee next to the couch and gently lifted , he unfolded the rab whatever he needed He tucked a towel under et on the couch

“He destroyed my shirt,” I whispered, annoyed

“I’m a bit more concerned that he tried to destroy you,” Shan auze Thouess I hadn’t stopped bleeding “Now’s the time you tell me who he is Are the Avellinos back?”

I nodded and pushedto see the wound It was about three inches long, located in the fleshier part above my hip, and blood still seeped out from it “Colm discovered them outside the warehouse Then we chased thehtclub—whoa, what’ve you got there?”

I wasn’t a huge fan of needles

“It’s lidocaine Local anesthesia This needs sutures, and I don’t have any surgical glue left” He filled the little syringe with liquid from a tiny bottle, and I didn’t like the look of it On the other hand, I wouldn’tthat area numb for a while Before I picked up my mate at the airport in three hours, I needed some shut-eye

“Okay Inject me, Daddy”

Shan snorted softly and held the needle to my skin “That mouth of yours”