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I scrambled for an explanation.
“I was… tucking you in,” I said, the words sounding every bit as thin and ridiculous as they felt. I knew how it looked. How wrong it was. My hand still hovered near her face, fingers tingling from the brief contact with her hair.
Every instinct I possessed, human and wolf, screamed to close the remaining distance. I wanted her with a force that made my chest ache. I wanted to forget every careful boundary I had built, every vow and every consequence.
However, I also knew I couldn’t without tearing apart the life I had sworn to protect.
But then Raven leaned up and kissed my cheek.
The touch was light, almost shy, yet it shut every coherent thought down at once. My head turned toward hers before I could stop myself.
We were only inches apart in
