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My glance slid to her and back. It wasn’t the first time she’d offered. “You don’t have to, Chloe.”
“I don’thaveto. I want to.”
She peered up at me, her smile pretty but with none of Faith’s wit behind it. No fire in her eyes, only mild warmth. She was a Level One burn—low intensity,light mop up, little damage.
But Faith…
Faith’s a Level Six, five alarm, code red inferno.
Chloe’s hand on my arm broke me out of my thoughts. “What’s that smile for?” Her gaze was demure and flirty at the same time. “Something I said?”
“What? No, I—”
“There they are!” Kal announced from his high vantage.
I looked to see Faith, wearing my shirt and sitting among my family, and couldn’t deny my goddamn heart felt like it was waking up from a long hibernation.
Chloe touched my arm again. “You seem a little out of it today. Are you sure you’re okay?”
“Sorry, just tired.”
Because I’d gotten little sleep last night. Because I’d been tangled with Faith in a heated frenzy and never wanted it to end.
But it was ending and well past time I got the fucking message before whatever I was feeling ran uncontained and out of my control.
