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10. A Connection
Dodge turned his body sideways and faced Cassidy, who laid on her unwounded side facing him, as he spoke of his murder, that goddess beauty fizzling out for a haunted look. “It happened years ago, actually…”
“So did mine,”
Together the two laid on a patch of grass, saddle blanket over the tops of themselves that left their legs to fight off the cold; fall was coming quicker than expected. Even though their chests were mere inches apart, their faces too, they did not touch one another - only Dodge knew how Cassidy had curled into his warmth as she slept earlier in the night. Only Dodge knew how he pulled her closer, drowning himself in her lilac scented perfume, and sought comfort in someone's arms.
“I was just fourteen when this man came
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