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Author: Bea Baum
last update publish date: 2025-12-15 07:17:34

VEX POV

Her mouth finds mine again before I can overthink it.

Not rushed. Not desperate.

Intentional.

Like she’s reminding me that this—us—has always lived in the quiet spaces between restraint and surrender.

I slide one hand to her waist, the other bracing against the wall beside her head. The fitting room feels impossibly small now, air thick with heat and memory and everything I’ve spent three months denying myself.

Her fingers curl into my jacket, tugging me closer. The contact sparks—brigh
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