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“I did it, you know I put hiazes with her and sat down “I did it because he askedfor ht I relive it, every night So why the hell would I want to tell you about it, so you can relive it, too? I wouldn’t wish that on anyone Especially not you”

She crawled across the bed and onto his lap Straddling hied hi, and she wished she hadn’t started this conversation in the first place “I’m so sorry So sorry you had to do that, and even sorrier that I kind of, sort of, forced you to tell me”

For a second, his ar someone back But then closed his ar out a broken breath He buried his face in her neck and shook his head slightly “I’m sorry I yelled at you I…I didn’t mean to”

“Shh” She rubbed his back, not daring to move Not just then He’d opened up to her, and then he’d stayed That was huge, and she knew it “It’s okay”

He set his hands on her shoulders and tugged her back “It’s not…not really You have a right to know, if we’re going tobetween us real You should knointo”

Sing hard, she nodded “Okay Yeah But I don’t think you’re a h a lot, seen a lot, but that doesn’t uy It makes you a hero”

He flexed his jaw “Hell no I’m not one of those”

“We’ll have to agree to disagree” She forced a se my mind”

“Now that you knohat I did—who I am—do you…?” He cleared his throat and sed “Do you still want to try this? Because I’htmares I do”

Her heart twisted, but she forced her smile to remain firmly in place “I drool A lot”

“Uh?” he blinked “That’s not even close to the sa”

Shaking her head, she soed to look dead serious “Sure it is Wait till you roll over into a puddle of it in the ht Then say that it’s not a deal breaker for you”

For a second, he stared at her Then he laughed, and all of the worry and tension faded away “Shit What the hell a myself into?”

“I don’t know You ht want to run while you can”

“Uh uh” He tugged her until she laid flat on her back, and trailed his fingers down her bare skin In all the eotten that she was naked…while he no longer was “I don’t scare off that easily”