Chapter 72Dermos’s POVAnd for a moment, everything else did too.Her breath, her hesitation. The tension that had been building between us since the moment she walked into that room…It all collapsed into that single point.Her lips were soft, almost nearly not there, like she wasn’t fully sure she was doing it, like she was still deciding even as it happened.And yet… she didn’t pull away, and neither did I.My hand tightened slightly against her jaw, steadying her, grounding her, or maybe, grounding myself.This wasn’t planned, this wasn’t controlled, this was a mistake I saw coming and chose not to stop.Her fingers finally pressed against my chest, not pushing nor resisting me, but literally holding on to me.That small, uncertain contact did more than anything else.It deepened the moment, made it real, made it impossible to ignore.The kiss didn’t last long, it couldn’t, cause the second it became something more than a soft touch, she pulled back.She stepped back as she had j
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