CHAPTER 176 Never Let Her Go

  Mack’s Song: “Never Let Her Go (Reinvented)” by Project Vela.

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  ~ MACK ~

  Laying in bed with Natalie was the most surreal feeling.

  Part of me was happy to the point of smug. Wallowing in her, in her scent, her warmth, her lush softness. I couldn’t stop touching her, and thankfully she didn’t seem to want to stop touching me either. She curled into my side under my arm, one arm thrown across my chest, her head on my shoulder. For a while, neither of us spoke. We just touched and breathed. And it was incredible.

  But I never stopped being aware of that looming danger behind us, the risks, the threats, gathering like storm clouds on the horizon.

  In a strange way it made laying there with her extra special. But the pleasure of it was so acute, it was almost painful. That small but insistent voice in my head not willing to let me rest because danger was coming. And this bonding, this claiming, only made the knife-edge we walked even sharper.