The Breaking PointEIRA'S POVI feel him before I fully wake, the heat of his hand moving slowly up my side, the way his breathing has changed from the steady rhythm of sleep to something heavier, more deliberate.My eyes flutter open in the darkness, and I find Cassian staring at me with an intensity that steals my breath."I'm sorry," he whispers, but his hand doesn't stop moving. "I tried to let you sleep. I tried to behave. But you're wearing this…" his fingers brush the sheer fabric of my nightgown, "and you're in my bed, and I can't…"He stops himself, jaw clenching.I can feel his struggle. The war between what he thinks he should do and what he desperately wants. And I can feel something else too, the hardness pressing against my hip through his trousers, insistent and impossible to ignore.Heat pools low in my belly."You can't what?" I whisper, shifting closer to him.His eyes darken. "I can't keep my hands off you."My heart is already racing, but at those words,
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