In Love With My Boss

Thirty Seven

I wake up early with Dimitri's arms still wrapped around me and cuddling me from behind, his head placed into the crook of my neck and he's still asleep, his steady breath brushing on my neck. His arm that is under me is with the forearm upward and my eyes inevitably land on his scar. He has one too, from that day. We both have something, bigger or smaller, to always remind us of that damned day. I bring my hand up and walks my fingers along the fading line on his skin and sigh. But you know what? All we have now are memories. Terrible memories, but still, they can't affect us anymore. We won't let them. And it all passed. It's all gone. And we're so good. We're good now and this is all that matters.

"Hey." he whispers in my ear into a sleepy voice and nuzzles his nose along my neck.

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