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284. In His Hands
~ JESSE ~
I was coming apart at the seams—my mind, my body, my soul. Everything in me sang with pain and heat, conflicting needs, unspent emotion. And all of it twisted together and roared out of my chest.
I was overwhelmed, clinging to this power by a hairsbreadth, and fucking Cazz wouldn’t listen!
But even that was making it all worse.
When he stepped up and touched me, my soul sang.
Now he stood here, touching me, staring at me with such tenderness, and it made me sick.
I inwardly flinched, dying to protect myself from him, even as a part of me wanted nothing more than to t
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