I wanted so much to kiss her and feel her skin. The phrase was caught between breath and silence. She still looked at me, hand on my face, touch light enough to remind me that I was alive. Her breath was too close, her heart beating fast enough to make me feel the rhythm in the air. I could pretend it was the sound of mine.But I couldn’t pretend. There was something inside of me that still pulsed differently—the beast, the shadow, whatever it was under my skin. Even so, when she leaned a little more, everything else ceased to matter. I felt her warmth before feeling the touch.The kiss came slowly. Hesitant. A touch of lips, the kind that asks for permission and at the same time grants it. For a second, the world dissolved. No forest, no chase, no fever. Just her. Her hand went up to my neck, and I held her by the waist, carefully, as if I feared that the simple contact could be too much. Her body reacted, and mine too, each recognizing the other with a precision that no word would h
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