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Nineteen: Lana
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lana's P.O.V.
My cheeks burned as he stared at me.
The longer we sat there, the more comfortable I felt with him. I still knew nothing about him, but I wanted to. I wanted to discover this new world that I had been blind to all these years, and I wanted to know more about the man that my daughter and I both felt such a deep connection to.
My hands clasped together in my lap as I tossed around where to begin before settling on the beginning.
"Why were you hurt when you first showed up here? What happened?" I glanced over his exposed chest, my eyebrows pulling together in concern as I looked over the scars covering his body.
"Can I give the short version?" The way his head tilted to the side made the deep green of his eyes look lighter than before. I couldn't help it as my gaze traveled from them, over his tanned cheeks and to his perfect lips, remembering the way they had felt in my dreams each night as he ran them over my body
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