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Chapter Forty-Three: Tensions Rise

Penulis: Hallie Hart
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-29 18:34:24

Amelia’s POV

I should’ve gone home.

After everything that happened — after everything he said, the way he touched me, the way his words still echoed in my head — I should’ve gotten out of his bed, called a car, and left. That would’ve been the smart thing to do. The safe thing.

But I wasn’t smart when it came to Dominic Blackwood.

Not anymore.

And definitely not when he looked at me like that, when his mouth crashed against mine like he was drowning and I was the only thing keeping him above water.

Now I lay in his bed, the sheets still tangled around my legs, the ghost of his touch lingering on my skin. The room was too dark, too quiet, and yet my mind was screaming. Replaying every word, every look, every moment we’d spent wrapped around each other like it meant something.

I knew better. I knew what this was supposed to be.

A distraction. A mistake. A momentary lapse in judgment.

But the way he held me before he slipped out of bed… the way his voice cracked when he called me Red… it
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