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We’d both fallen asleep with the lights still on after Mav had finally been forced to withdraw fro to clean me up with a washcloth and maneuver me under the covers because I’d been coash I suspected much of that had had to do with the intense e with as Mav had made love tolove, but it was the only way I could describe what had happened between us I’d been fucked plenty of times and while I’d never enjoyed it, a couple of entle with me…one had even whispered that he loved h to believe the act had anything to do with love Inanother to get off and nothing more But what had happened between me and Mav…it was so much more than that

It had to be The things I’d seen in Mav’s eyes as we’d become one couldn’t be faked

Could they?

“Don’t”

The whispered word hadup fro in my direction

“Don’t what?” I asked as I automatically removed my hand from his back

Mav reached out with his right hand and gently tugged my lip free of the hold I had on it with my teeth I hadn’t even realized I’d reverted to the habit at some point

“Don’t think about whatever has you so worried,” he murmured He reached for my hand and put it back on his back “Don’t stop that either,” he added “Feels good”

I sers caught on some scratches in the middle of his back and I realized I’d been the one to put them there

“Those felt good too,” Mav whispered and I glanced up to see him with a happy smirk on his face

I held his gaze for a moment before I leaned down and brushed my lips over each scratch When I lifted, I continued exploring the tattoo He shivered as I ers

“Do they have so to you?” I asked as I motioned to the tattoos

Mav curled his arms under the pillow I hated that his eyes darkened and that he shifted them away from me

“Some Native American cultures revere snakes, but randfather believed them to be evil spirits As soon as I could afford it, they were the first tattoos I got”