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Could he deny her that? He knehat the cold felt like, that feeling that there was nothing to war its way so deep inside him that he would never knohat true warmth was

Yet she had warmed him

He realized that Soli her just like this, there wasn’t even the slightest chill inside him or outside of him

He wouldn’t deny her that, when she had given it to him

He held her, let her slip into sleep, then pushed the forgotten laptop to the corner of the headboard before jerking the co beside her

She moaned at the loss, but only until he wrapped himself around her He surrounded her with his arainst his neck, the feel of her breath against hi

And he felt the need for sleep hi to restore his sense of balance Because so else ever had

The animal watched fro man’s eyes open, looked around and saw only the darkness of the room where they slept

It looked down and saw the woed soul it felt the first sliver of peace arise That little bit of light that gave it hope

The woent, less suspicious when the animal came to awareness

Thefree, and with that, the anies of its mind

How tired it was How it hurt, locked so deep within the man’s mind that its captivity was like hell filled with its own roars

Sweet Ria The ht of her as Sweet Ria The animal saw more So much more As the man slept, it stretched out slowly and touched her hair Eave the th

Her hair was soft, so soft The anih the man’s hand The man slept deeply wrapped around her, but still the animal moved cautiously, so cautiously It couldn’t allow this woman to escape it Thehimself for it The ani

mal refused to allow it