"You think you can just disappear on me?" The words tear from my throat, raw and jagged. I thrust forward, the stretch overwhelming both of us, her sharp cry mingling with the guttural growl that escapes me. "Do you know what that did to me? What I thought?" I need her around me desperately. Every gasp she emits reminds me she’s here. She’s real. She’s alive. My fear wraps around her in greedy tendrils demanding more, more, more. "I didn’t disappear.” She clutches my shoulders, trying to steady herself even as I pound in her body. "You were gone." My voice cracks as I thrust harder, burying
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