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My throat tightens. “That’s because you were already it. You just didn’t believe it yet.”

The silence swells again. There’s a breeze outside. A branch taps gently against the window like it’s trying not to wake anyone.

“I hated you,” I whisper. “After…. For a long time.”

“I hated me, too.”

There it is. No apology. No excuses.

Just the truth.

I turn on my side, face him.

“You kissed me in Gabe’s pool like you still love me,” I accuse.

It’s easy to talk like this in the dark.

“Idolove you.”

I feel something twist in my chest.

“I don’t know what to do with that,” I say honestly.

“Give us a chance,” he pleads.

Another silence. This one stays longer, but it doesn’t press—it just lives between us, warm and fragile.

“If all I ever get is this,” he whispers, “talking in the dark, being near you, I’ll take it. I’ll take you any way I can get you.”

I don’t respond.

But I don’t tell him to stop.

I don’t tell myself to stop, either.

I go with my heart. The one he broke.

CHAPTER 15

Dom

She shifts closer to me. Her hand rests on my chest, her fingers tracing the lines of my muscles.

I groan, my cock straining against the fabric of my boxers.

“Luna,” I start, but she cuts me off with a kiss.

Her lips are soft and demanding against mine.

Her tongue slips into my mouth, and I’m lost.

My hands tangle in her hair, pull her closer. Closer. Closer.

She moans into my mouth, the sound vibrating through me.

I can feel her heat, her warmth.

Her body presses against me, her breasts crushed against my chest.

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