PREGNANT AND BANISHED
He crouched low in front of me, and before I understood what was happening, his hands were cradling my face, tilting it gently toward his own.
The touch sent shivers down my spine, sharp and immediate, the kind that bypassed thought entirely and settled straight into memory. I remembered that touch. I had felt it before, months ago, in a different kind of darkness, when he'd held my face just like this and told me I didn't have to carry everything alone. My body remembered before my mind could catch up, and I hated it, hated how easily it betrayed me even now, even with my heart still bleeding from Jasper's voice on the other end of a phone I had no right to touch.
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