Jacks slowly ran a hand up and down her spine. “Have you decided to stay?” “I thought you already heard what I was thinking,” she whispered. “I want you to say it out loud.” His words were low and quiet; she wouldn’t have heard them if she hadn’t been so close. And it struck her how intimate words could be, how they could be spoken only once, for only one person, and they would never be heard again, they would disappear like a moment, gone almost as soon as you realized they were there. Evangeline’s heart was still racing, and she wondered now if it wasn’t scared or nervous but if it was just
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