“Not tonight.” What? “I’m not Kai,” he said, “and you’re not Banks.” There was something pleading in his voice that gave me pause. “Thunder Bay doesn’t exist, and we’re not in The Pope,” he continued. “It’s six years ago when I was happy and excited, and you were curious about everything, and my words were all it took to touch you.” My entire body stilled, and tears suddenly blurred my vision as he whispered to me. “You’re the girl I didn’t know, and we could be anyone in that confessional. Everything else fell away. Everything. We could hide and fuck with the world in that little room. It was
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