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023. The Worst Morning

Author: Nightingale
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-12 23:56:59

Blake's POV:

I woke up with a loud thud, like someone threw a sack from the first floor. For a second I didn’t even understand what happened. My body jerked and I felt cold floor under me. My eyes blinked fast and I saw myself lying on the ground beside the bed, blanket half tangled around my legs.

My head was spinning as I looked up, and my breath almost stopped when I saw Alex on the bed, clutching the blanket tight around his waist like someone attacked him. His hair was messy, his face was red with anger and shock, and he was breathing heavily like he ran a marathon.

“What the hell?” he growled at me. “Why were we lying like this? Why were we nude on my bed? And why on earth I am soaked with… with this? Fluid. Semens. Fuck.” His voice cracked in between and the way he said ‘this’ was full of disgust and confusion mixed together. His eyes were wild, filled with something I never saw in him before.

I quickly pushed myself up by holding the edge of the bed, still trying to understand
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