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Pia
I woke before my alarm clock and glanced over to find Ryker on his back, breathing heavy. Stubble covered his head, and I settled on my side to study the man who had turned my entire world upside down and inside out.
He didn’t believe he was a good man, and from the outside looking in, most of society would agree with his findings. But he’d allowed me inside. Allowed me a peek into his thought processes, his emotions that he didn’t seem too fond of.
We’d made progress the night before, leaps and bounds beyond what I’d even hoped for, and he officially knew more about me than my closest friends. I’d flipped, unloaded all my dirty laundry—and he still stuck around when I’d feared he would leave. He’d let his walls down, even.
His touch, the little it was, had thrilled me, turned
