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Nothingbut this moment and his mouth on my body, his hands onto hiht back to life in the same moment, the saht in my throat just before he lifts me up and carriesme with a kind of intensity that ht on fire or woken up fro his hands downthem back up to my face and he kisses me once, twice, and his teeth catchto hihim intoto say his name but I can’t even find the tile word

I shove hi and fuet so frustrated I just rip it open, buttons flying everywhere, and I don’t have a chance to push the fabric off his body before he pulls s around his hips and dips me backward until themy face in his hands, his thumbs two parentheses around my mouth and he pulls me close and he kisses me, kisses me until time topples over and my head spins into oblivion

It’s a heavy, unbelievable kiss

It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to cliht up the world The kind that takes forever and no ti my cheeks, and he pulls back just to lookand he says, "I think," he says, " to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I kne to capture moments like these and revisit the

FIFTY-SIX

Warner has been asleep all

He didn’t wake up to work out Didn’t wake up to shower Didn’t wake up to do anything He’s just lying here, on his stomach, arms wrapped around a pillow

I’ve been awake since 8:00 a at him for two hours

He’s usually up at five thirty Soht’ve s by now I have no idea if he has s or specific places to be today I don’t know if he’s ruined his schedule by being asleep so late I don’t know if anyone will come to check on him I have no idea

I do know that I don’t want to wake hiers down his back, still confused by the word IGNITE tattooed on his skin, and trainother than the terrifying abuse he’s suffered his whole life I can’t handle the horrible truth of it I curl ainst his back,fast to his sides I drop a kiss on his spine I can feel hi, in and out, so evenly So steadily

Warner shifts, just a little

I sit up

He rolls over slowly, still half asleep Uses the back of one fist to rub his eyes Blinks several times And then he sees me

Smiles

It’s a sleepy, sleepy smile

I can’t help but smile back I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine I’ve never seen a sleepy Warner before Never woken up in his ar but awake and alert and sharp

He looks alht now

It’s adorable

"Co for ht against hi, sweetheart"