The bed was too big without him.Jasmine stirred, the cool sheets brushing against her bare skin as sunlight filtered through the half-drawn blinds. The faint smell of cedar, smoke, and Theo still lingered that dark, intoxicating scent that clung to her hair, her skin, even the pillow beside her.She reached across the bed instinctively, fingers grazing nothing but emptiness. The space where he’d slept was already cold.Of course he was gone.Theo always left early to respond to alarms, to chase the sound of danger before dawn even broke.Still, the ache in her chest wouldn’t ease.The events of last night replayed behind her eyelids like flashes of lightning his voice, rough and commanding, his hands, his eyes, the heat of his body against hers. The moment when all that restraint, all that carefully built distance, had finally snapped.It had started with a dare a stupid, harmless game that wasn’t harmless at all.She could still hear one of her brother’s friend voice laughing, teasi
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