She pressed her hands to my cheeks as our minty breaths mingled an inch apart. “Feel it?” “What, Liv?” I said with impatience lacing my words and rolling off my body. “Wanting something so much it hurts.” Her breaths were just as labored as mine. “Wanting it beyond all reason. That moment when the rest of the world doesn’t matter because you need something. The ache. The inability to breathe. Your heart beating out of your chest.” “Livy …” I grimaced, needing to move. “It’s why I came back. It’s why I stayed. Feel it … and know that every cell in my body felt this way yesterday.” “I feel it,”
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