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Too Much to Lose

Auteur: Bea Baum
last update Dernière mise à jour: 2025-10-08 13:25:34

VEX POV

Her lips taste like the first breath after a storm.

Soft. Careful. Real.

For a heartbeat, I forget the crowd—the council, the cameras, the world that’s waiting to judge whether this marriage means peace or war. It’s just her. The tremor in her hands. The way her breath catches right before she leans in, like she’s standing on the edge of something she can’t take back.

I meant to keep it simple—a show. A clean kiss for the sake of politics. But the second my palm meets her cheek, the script dies.

Her skin is warm beneath my hand. Fragile, but not weak. I tilt her face just enough to see her eyes—there’s fear there, yes, but also something else. Something that feels like surrender and defiance in the same breath.

Then I kiss her.

It’s slow. Careful. Not claiming—God knows I’ve taken enough things in my life—but giving. Asking.

And it breaks me a little.

Because this softness is worse than any bullet, any blade. It’s the kind of wound that doesn’t bleed, just stays open.

I can fe
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