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Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.Kristen Simmons
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His green eyes blazed with desire; such a different look than I'd known before. Chase had studied me, reading my feelings. Tucker was only trying to see his own reflection. Disturbing on several levels.Kristen Simmons
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He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.Kristen Simmons
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It was you, " I say softly. "It's always you I think about." The intensity in his gaze took my breath away. I could feel him. Every part of him. His soul was sewn to mine. His heated blood flowed through my veins. I'd thought that I had been close to my mother, and I was, but not like this. Chase and I barely touched- our hands, mouths, knees- but there was no part of me that was not his.Kristen Simmons
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Don't do that again! Not ever again! " I told him." I should say the same to you, " he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck. "Promise me! " I demanded." I... I promise."" I can't lose you.Kristen Simmons
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The fear, momentarily paused, returned with full force, and in this frantic, baffled state I ran to him, and leapt into his arms. He seemed surprised at first but soon was squeezing back. "It's all right, " he soothed. "No one's hurt. You're okay." His words sliced through me, and for the first time since he'd taken me from school, I knew the truth about us: I could not be okay if he was not okay. Pain, nightmares, fighting- all of it aside- he was a part of me.Kristen Simmons
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I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. "I'll wait for you, " I told him.Kristen Simmons