“We go on at nine, and I need to shower before then.” He unzips his hoodie, as if to demonstrate just how filthy he is … But Winnie only finds herself eying the way his T-shirt hangs on his frame. It is disconcerting that he can be so extremely well-proportioned while also being, ugh, Jay. Part of her genuinely misses the boy he used to be. Most of her, though, is just impressed by what he’s grown into. Hunter training clearly suits him. Not just physically either, but emotionally. In that clearing, on that tree trunk, he’d been more alert, more alive than she’d seen him in years. This is the
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