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AFTER THE FIRE

Author: Prestigeee
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-06 13:28:12

CHAPTER 79– AFTER THE FIRE

BRANDY'S POV

The world literally stopped.

Not in the poetic, romantic way people wrote about in novels. No, this was the kind of stop that knocked the air out of your lungs, that froze your skin and made your blood feel like it had turned to ice. Every nerve in my body was screaming, every sense heightened... and yet, everything had gone still.

The movement between my legs ceased instantly and the hand that had been squeezing my breast froze. I felt the warmth that had been pressed against my neck vanish like it had never existed.

His entire body went rigid, and if there was a word beyond “rigid,” that was me.

I was utterly still beneath him. Not a twitch. Not a breath. The fire that had consumed us just seconds ago evaporated, replaced by a cold, crystalline panic. The passionate, reckless man who had been devouring me with heat and hunger was gone. It was like watching someone snap into stone.

He pulled back slightly, just enough to see me, and I swear the
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