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When I woke it was dark outside, and I was snuggled in Sculpt’s ars, his lean, hard body draped around h while his other hand rested onmy belly button I turned to look up at hi out across thethe horses in the distance

“Eme” He leaned into me further and kissed the side of my neck

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to fall asleep It must have been your sexy, raspy voice” I cuddled closer, and his aruitar lay in its case next to us

“Yeah, Mouse It’s good”

I sat up, excited for hi for the band in a year I had yet to see them play, and I was excited to hear them, but nervous too I mean, Sculpt was six foot three and all muscle He has what I call sexy bedroom hair, always a little messy with the odd lazy curl that falls over his face And he had ink running down his left arm to his elbohich made the hot a scary, badass hot Then put in that fact that he was in a band and did soirls were no doubt all over hi Sculpt entailed

We’d been hanging out ever since I asked hio I was assaulted a week before I sought out Sculpt, coie’s coffee shop where I work I’d been so shocked and terrified that when round I just froze

When I pulled ed to bite his hand and screauy away After that I was on a round fighter was the perfect choice I’d also heard he neededto pay

He never let me

I reached up and ran ht indent in his chin “Can I hear it?”

He shook his head, and despite his lack of smile, because he rarely did smile, I saw the flicker of amusement in his eyes “No, E to you” The amusement left his eyes, and I felt him stiffen “Did you think about what I asked?”

I knew exactly what he was referring to I had a perpetual war in my head for the last three days—I wasn’t ready to have my heart blasted with porcupine quills when Sculpt left o on the road with a group of guys I hadn’t even met yet and have Sculpt responsible for e in a month I had a life here with my best friend Kat and her brother Matt ere also my roommates and my only family

Ever since grade school when Kat and I had started hanging out, Matt had been there for the both of us He was eighteen and Kat ten when their parents died in a drinking and driving accident He’d instantly becoer had a dad, Matt sort of becaure in my life I looked up to him

I’d snuck in Kat’s bedroo away froht a new boyfriend hoo hoht raet out of et me