CHAPTER 173 Back to You (9 Mar)

  If you like music while you read, try “Masquerade” by Euphoria + Bolshiee. It’s what I was listening to while writing this scene!

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  ~ NATALIE ~

  “I love you, Mack. I always have. I’ve… I’ve been so miserable without you—”

  Something broke in his eyes and his hands came up to my face as he took my mouth in a soul-searing kiss.

  I sucked in, gripping his wrists, as he devoured me—frantic, desperate—and everything in my body, my heart, broke open and sang.

  I couldn’t think, could barely breathe, as his lips pressed mine, his tongue seeking, demanding, insistent, and his body, his warmth pressed against me from knee to chest.

  I was trembling, whimpering against the waves of relief and joy and terror breaking my chest. It was too much. Too much.

  His hand at my neck clawed into my hair, cupping the back of my skull, tangling in my hair and he tilted his head and rasped my name against my lips and I could taste the love on his tongue.