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But actually getting physical with him?

That was, like, Def Con One level of dangerous.

I couldn’t risk getting hurt like that again.

I wasn’t sure I could get through it a second time.

Not with any sense of self intact anyway.

So I straightened up. I tucked my tits away. I yanked my pants back into place. Then I moved around Valen who was still trying to catch his breath and find his equilibrium.

I wished I could find something clever to say, some way to brush the whole thing off, but I was too busy trying to remind myself of all the reasons I couldn’t let myself start having romantic feelings toward him again.

So I just walked away.

And maybe that was poetic enough.

This time, I was the one to leave.

But it was probably too much to hope he felt even a bit of the same hurt that I’d felt all those years ago.

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