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27 SPI DE R e lie entangled on the bed in the dark. I don’t know how long we’ve been like this. Hours, maybe. Days? Years? Who f*****g knows. I’ve lost all sense of time. All I know is that I’m here, in a place I never dreamed I’d be, with a woman who makes me feel like life might be worth living after all. Her head rests on my chest. Her legs are twined between mine. Her warm hand is pressed flat over my beating heart. My stunned, achy, battered heart that doesn’t have a bloody clue what just hit it. It’s been bitten by a viper with sharp fangs and the sweetest venom. After a heavy exhalation, Reyna whispers, “What happens now?” “Now we figure it out, I suppose.” There’s a brief but tense pause. “Is it…” “What?” “Is it always like this for you? I mean, this intense?” I close
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