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15: Locke.

I turn over in bed again and the sheets twist around my waist.

My gaze finds the clock on the bedside table: 2:14 am.

I haven't slept a minute. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to sleep again. Every time I close my eyes, there is Harriet. Beautiful and perfect and broken Harriet. What happened to her? Why won't she tell me and let me fix it? Or if I can't, I can at least prove to her that I'm not going anywhere. There is nothing in her past that would keep me from her. So she was wild in her teens and early twenties? Most people are. Not everyone wants to entrench themselves in academia and gets excited by a line of zeroes and ones.

She's wonderful exactly as she is.

But she won't let me in.

All she can offer me is sex. Dirty, no-strings fucking where I basically reduce her to an object. A willing body. She's made her terms clear and I hate them. I hate anything that makes her feel less than goddamn royalty. I want to worship her. Spoil her. Value her.

There's a problem, though.

My body
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