"Sometimes the only proof that your heart is still beating is the desperate, bruising weight of another person pressing against you in the dark."The air inside Liam’s safe house alcove is suffocatingly thick, heavy with the metallic tang of burnt copper, old ozone, and the persistent dampness of the northern slums leaking through the porous brick foundation. My back hits the freezing masonry with a dull thud, the impact jarring the raw, tender bruises along my spine, but I barely register the pain. The real agony is the hollow, screaming void echoing inside my chest, a vast emptiness left in the wake of everything I lost, everything I was forced to leave behind in the burning ruins of the estate.Liam’s hands are warm against my skin, too warm, pressing flat against my waist as he boxes me in against the wall."Liam, stop," I gasp, my breath hitching as his mouth brushes dangerously close to my jawline, sending a sudden, electric shiver straight down my spine that threatens to unrave
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