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—“I’ll be gentle with you,” he says in a low, resonant voice. “What I do for a living won’t be what I bring to the bed, not with you.”
—“Why,” I whisper.
—“I only fight what fights against me.” His scarred dagger hand reaches out, & runs along the hooding as if it is my hair. “And you can’t hurt me.”

‘Though he brought the cold in with him, he makes me think of fire. At the moment, he is banked & contained, but the potential for destruction is never far, & I tell myself that it’s because of this latent threat that my body is aware of every move he makes.’