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Only when my hands were pink and stinging did I realize the truth; I would never be clean again.
He bent his head and kissed the inside of my wrist. Something within me stirred. “There were a dozen reasons, really,” I heard him say. “For one, I had already started to know you. It wouldn’t have been enough incentive to agree—you would’ve opted to risk coming here without the protection of my name. Another reason is that it’s simply my nature to withhold and distrust. I wasn’t born with this scar; someone bestowed it upon me. And there’s also the fact that… I just wanted you.”

