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A breath away from everything I shouldn’t want.

And then…

“It’s nice to see you again, June.”

Her voice sliced through the moment like a scalpel to a throat.

Cold.

Sweet.

Deadly.

I froze.

My chest dropped.

My breath vanished.

My entire body seized like someone had poured ice water down my spine.

Slowly, I turned.

“Lucy.”

Her name left my mouth like poison.

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Kai

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I prepped myself again and again for this moment.

For her.

Stay away.

Don’t touch her.

Don’t even look too long.

She was never mine to claim.

She never did.

She never would.

Those rules looped through my mind like a mantra—silent, stubborn, obsessive.

But the moment she appeared, every level of restraint I’d built shattered in an instant.

When she ran into my arms with that fierce, warm momentum, my entire mind went black. All those warnings, all that self-control, all those promises I’d carved into my bones… gone.

The feeling that hit me was overwhelming—feral, intoxicating.

Not lust.