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“Someone like me?”

“A good person”

“I’ood people in your life, Damian”

“It’s okay”

“No” She shook her head “It’s not But I understand This whole situation is odd, so I get it”

“It’s not just this situation,” I confessed “I don’t do well”

“With what?”

“Other humans”

“Oh,” she said in understanding “Well, people can be a bit overrated”

“You love people”

She laughed and shrugged “For better or worse”

The corner of ether “I’ll do better, as I said with the vows I’ll try to be better at not being the asshole that I a on it Just, please… Be patient with me”

A softness found her brown eyes as she tilted her head to stare my way Her mouth parted, and I traced the curves of her full, heart-shaped lips with ly easy for a human to set their stare on her and become fixated on her perfection Stella looked like a piece of art that would be highlighted in the Louvre Museum

Breathtaking

Even when I was a dick toward her, a part of me noticed her remarkable existence She didn’t know it, but so around her beauty

“You’re not an asshole, Da with a kindness I wasn’t certain I deserved “You just have asshole tendencies”

I chuckled a little

Her eyes lit up

I stopped hter

Her eyes dimmed

“I wished that stayed longer,” she hter

I didn’t have enough nerve to tell her that I wished it had, too

“I’ll let you get back to work, but please, Daet a weekly e You’ll sleep better”

“What makes you think I don’t sleep well?”