Stone and I looked into each other’s eyes, watching me strike his cheek with my palm, and it hurts in my heart, not on my face. It hurts, but this wasn’t what he wanted me to see or feel. It was what came next, and our eyes catch, skin against skin, blonde wisps of hair in my face, flares of starved, green eyes, waves of warmth crashing into me one after the other, pure bliss, so light it could take me to my knees, so heavy it could take me to my grave; the feel of her bound to me, the taste of her on my lips, the smell of her surrounding me, the sound of her breathing, the way she’s holding
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