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Chapter 33

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He drops his face into his hands with a groan. “That’s not what I you know what? Forget it. There’s no fighting you when you look at me like that.”

I smile. “I love that you know that.”

He shakes his head, defeated, but he doesn’t argue.

We brush our teeth side by side, the sink light harsh and intimate. I watch him in the mirror the entire time. He pretends not to notice until he doesn’t. Our eyes catch in the glass. I grin around the toothbrush. He rolls his eyes.

Again.

And again.

Each time
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