Chapter 11He practically threw me away from him. I stumbled when my feet hit the floor, my legs were too shaky to support me properly, and I had to grab onto the wall to keep from falling.Nathan was backing away from me like I had burned him. One of his hands came up to his mouth and he wiped at his lips roughly, like he could erase what had just happened. His chest was heaving with harsh breaths and I could see sweat beading on his forehead.But the thing that made my stomach drop was that he wasn’t hot anymore. The feverish heat that had been radiating from his skin was gone. His body temperature seemed completely normal now, like the act of kissing me, of touching me, had somehow regulated whatever was wrong with him.“I… didn’t,” Nathan started, then stopped. He looked down at his hands like they belonged to someone else. “Why did I do that?”The question wasn’t directed at me, was he talking to me or himself ? I couldn’t tell.“Nathan,” I tried to say, taking a small ste
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