Chapter 28 | Nine Years and a Text Message

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Sloane stared at her ceiling, blanket twisted around her legs from an hour of tossing and turning. Sleep wasn’t happening. Not after what went down in the theater room. Not with the lingering sensation of Lukas’s lips still ghosting across hers.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid," she muttered, pressing her palms against her closed eyes until colors bloomed behind her eyelids.

What had she been thinking? Nine years of carefully maintaining boundaries, nine years of treating him like the annoying housemate he was, and she’d thrown it all away because—what? Because he suddenly had an Aspect? Because he’d looked at her with those amber eyes that seemed so much more intense lately?

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