I curled one hand tighter around him as I let the other wander up to the tattoo, and I brushed my fingers over the statement, hoping he could feel the statement of my own. I love you. I love you. I always had. Probably long before I’d really understood what it meant. An agonized sound rolled through his body, and a second hand dove into my hair, the man lifting me higher by both hands as he surged into my mouth. Guiding me exactly where he wanted me as he muttered, “Moonflower…baby…what have you done to me?” He pushed himself deeper than he’d gone before, a hand at the back of my head drawing
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