Chapter 69: 'More'

This bonus chapter is dedicated to @Ivette_M11! Thank you so much for the supergift!!! <3

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Elle felt as though something inside her had crashed. His grip on her wrist felt ever too tight. It was not painful, but her throat was somehow aching. A little. Or so she told herself.

The moment she reached out to touch him, he reacted as though… as though her hand was some kind of deadly weapon that could kill him. She did not even manage to touch him. At all. Not to mention touch… she was not even near enough to feel the warmth radiating off his skin. Nor did she manage to say what she had so desperately wanted to say.