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I had no idea what the fuck this was, but I didn’t want it to stop

I rolled off her and let ht now, but food was absent from myreturned to normal The fire had died down in the meantime, just a couple flames left

She was still on her sto fucked was just as exhausting as doing the fucking

I should get her out of my cabin and back to hers

But ive a damn

The mattress shifted, and her skin came into contact with mine Her headtucked between mine Her touch was cold, like a nice breeze fro hot, her own personal fire Fire and ice

I turned ontoour bodies closer together My arainst my chest, her hard nipples sharp as nails

She tucked her head underneath ainst my exposed throat

It was then that I realized how vulnerable I was

That she could kill ht and I wouldn’t even be awake long enough to knoas happening

But I went to sleep anyway

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When I woke up, I was in a coht hit my closed eyelids

For a second, I thought I was home

I knew Huntley had moved ahen the cold set in, when it pressed on me from all sides without his body there to keep it at bay My eyes opened and saw hi at the foot of the bed, tall, ous shoulders He was at full o

He walked past the bed to the bathroo back His spine was surrounded by an array of muscles, cuts in the skin that separated each one It was no surprise he could carry me across the tundra, could hold his swords, his ax, and his shield

I sat up and pulled the furs closer to me, cold without the fire, cold without him

He returned a moment later, still buck naked “Get dressed”

“I want to stay” I didn’t want to go back to that cold cabin with that hay mattress and no s I wanted to stay here, on the softest bed I’d ever knoith blankets that trapped the heat against my skin

“You can’t”

“What does itanywhere—”