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Fading Marks

Author: E L Simon
last update publish date: 2025-08-21 06:25:53

It had been a little over a week since the charity game.

A little over a week since Ethan Doyle had wrapped his massive hands around Milo’s face, leaned in close, and sucked his neck in a way that made his entire body sing.

He’d watched the marks fade in the mirror day by day. The hickeys turned pale, then vanished. The scratches down his back softened into faint red lines. Then pink. Then gone.

One morning, he stood in the hotel bathroom with the light on full and twisted to look over his shou
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  • Owned on the Ice M/M Romance   Unwelcome Memory

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