The air in the bedroom had grown thick and heavy, carrying the mingled scents of sweat, sex, and the faint pine that drifted in whenever the wind rattled the window. We’d shifted again, bodies rearranging in the big bed. I ended up on my side facing Sage, our legs tangled, while Nova sprawled across the foot of the bed like she owned every inch of it. Jules sat propped against the headboard, one knee drawn up, watching the three of us with that steady, unhurried gaze that made her seem older than the rest of us somehow. Sage’s fingers traced slow, feather-light lines down my arm, following the curve of muscle and bone as if she were committing it to memory. Her touch was always like that, deliberate, almost reverent. “Your skin feels different after you come,” she whispered, voice soft and wondering, the way she spoke when she was lost in a new sketch. “Warmer. A little electric. Like the air right before a storm.” I smiled and caught her hand, pressing a kiss to her palm. “You no
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