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His Return
Chapter 24.
The slam of the door shook her awake, a tension in her shoulders as she all but jumped from her crumpled spot at the end of the bed. An odd sense of dejavu coursed through her system and she looked around with a groan.
"Jackson?" she called weakly, trying and failing to adjust her blurry eyes to the darkness. "What time is it?"
The overhead light flicked on, and to her surprise it was Randy standing there, not Jackson.
The man in question was at her side in an instant, his brown eyes crinkled. "It's midnight, K. What on earth have you been doing?" he chuckled, and she wasn't sure why he was laughing at her until he began wiping the beads that had been stuck to her cheek. His warm and tanned hands brushing the crafting items off her face with a gentleness she craved.
For a moment, she found herself leaning into him. The touch of his fingertips making her sigh in content.
She could recall their first k
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