Morning light found us still tangled in the wreckage we had made.I woke up first. The sheets were damp in places, and sticky in others. My wrists carried faint red marks from whatever he had used to bind them. Between my legs I felt the deep, pleasant ache of having been used thoroughly and without gentleness. The taste of whiskey and him still lingered at the back of my tongue.Jude slept on his stomach, one arm flung across my waist as if even unconscious he refused to let the distance return. In sleep the hard lines of his face softened. He looked closer to the boy I used to torment than the man who had fucked the apology out of me the night before.I watched him breathe and felt the complicated weight of what we had done settle over me like another blanket.When he woke, he didn’t startle. His eyes opened and found mine immediately.“Regretting it?” he asked, voice rough with sleep.“No, You?”He shook his head. “No.”We stayed like that for a while, not touching beyond the arm s
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