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Chapter 42: multitask

Author: Maya Vale
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-13 22:52:59

Norah’s words hit him like a spark to dry flame—small, quiet, but enough to burn through the last thread of restraint he’d been holding on to.

Something in his expression shifted.

He stepped into her space, one hand sliding to her waist, drawing her against him slowly—almost like he was giving her a chance to breathe, to stop him, to choose.

She didn’t.

She couldn’t.

And that was all it took.

His mouth found hers.

It started like a soft, aching press—like he’d been memorizing this moment long b
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