KIERAN’S POVTiming was quickly becoming an enemy.I cursed it now as Sera’s breaths came uneven beneath me, her hands braced against my chest, her eyes dark with want she was refusing for reasons that both made sense and infuriated me in equal measure.“I’m not trying to make this harder,” she said softly, as if reading the war etched into every line of my body. “I want you. Goddess, Kieran, I do. But right now…we have to be careful.”Careful.The word scraped against every frayed nerve.I forced myself to still, my forehead dropping to hers, breath hot and restrained.“You have a terrible habit,” I muttered, “of being right at the worst possible moments.”A small, breathless laugh escaped her. “You love it.”I did.I loved her mind. Her foresight. The way she saw three steps ahead while still standing firmly in the present.And hearing her say she wanted me sent something fierce and hungry swelling in my chest.I remembered the last time I’d let her go after a heated moment, remember
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