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"I'm so sorry, Travis! If you hadn't told everyone that I felt sick this morning ... I mean, everyone knows we're together, so everyone assumed ... I tried to explain before, but you saw when everyone got involved it was too chaotic. So I knew it would be better if I told you the truth when we were alone ... I'm sorry I know how much I wanted this! I said, my apology came out more like a plea.
Travis looked at me with bleak eyes, but his words and tone weren't angry or accusing the way he expected them to be.
"You don't have to apologize because there is nothing for you to do. Everything is a great misunderstanding and it started with a lie that I started. I have no one to blame for this, only myself"
"I know I should feel better since you are taking all of this very well, but somehow I just feel worse. Why?"
"I think it's because we realized how much we loved this baby, after all"
I felt pricks in the back of my eyes and I knew that he had underst
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Slowly, I traced my fingertips against the contours of his face, feeling like I was seeing him for the first time like I was looking at the face of a stranger. I took his left cheek in my hand and gently stroked the scar that ran down the length of him, carefully rubbing my thumb back and forth against the line of discolored flesh. Rather than marring his features, he just seemed to add to them, making him appear formidable to enemies, yet human and vulnerable to the few people who knew him best, people like me.He put a gloved hand on the left side of my face and gently stroked my cheek with his thumb the way he was stroking it. His gaze met mine and with just one look I knew what he wanted. His body slowly leaned into mine and I let my eyes slowly close as I felt the distance between us decrease until it was completely gone. I felt more than seeing his lips pressing against mine, soft and warm, prompting me wordlessly to participate and I did. Pressing and pushing my lips a
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A light, a cool breeze gently blows against our sweaty faces and sticky, overheated bodies, cooling us down and giving us much-needed relief, while above our heads the moon is a pale ghost white, a stark contrast to the scorching red sun. deep orange in the west which is the direction we are heading.It is a rarity ... to have the moon and the sun in the sky simultaneously, but it is a common rarity if that makes any sense."Jane, are you okay?" he asks softly behind me."I'm fine." I look over my shoulder and smile at him.Like most of the people in the convoy, we allow ourselves to pass so we can protect the rear, he and I are riding a double camel, Travis sitting behind the camel's hump, and me sitting in front him. This is mainly because Madam Shiji and Gabriela brought too many belongings with them and instead of transporting people around a quarter of the camels carry packages instead, of Gabriela, it is understandable she was supposed to get marrie
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"I'm not asking you to stop worrying about him, I'm asking you to stop blaming yourself for not being able to control his actions. It's easy to blame ourselves for so many things that go wrong in this world, but sometimes we just have to accept the fact that not everything is under our control. People especially aren't something you can control, so stop blaming yourself for all the things you did or didn't do. If you can do that, it's a way to start getting away from Christina's downfall""And what about you? You seem to have stopped trying to live your life differently than your father did. And what about you? You seem to have stopped trying to live your life differently than your father did. You don't follow the rules anymore. Aren't you afraid of having the same fate as him now?""That's another thing I learned, we are not our parents and you are not Christina. Simply being independent of them gives us a better chance to change our destinies.""Just bec
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"I do not blame you for thinking something like that considering all the people you lost, but it is not only you, it is all of us, it is the life we have chosen to lead. Pick anyone in our town and they've lost a lot of people too like ... Kein. Before he even got out of the academy, he lost his grandfather. Before he even became a sergeant, he lost his uncle. And what about Diego? He lost his mother, his father, and Frank and before Christina saved the life of his friend, he lost him too for a while. And what about Albert? He lost his entire family! Travis, you are not cursed, so don't feel like you have to hide behind barriers to protect the people around you from yourself""I know, that's why it's the last and the least reason why I still keep wearing a mask on missions and why I made the first move towards you on New Year, that's why I keep letting you into my life. I have many reasons to continue wearing my mask, but around you ... not anymore"After a while, I
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As I approached Travis, I reminded him that she is not the only one in a relationship that other people might consider "wrong."It reminded her that she has people who are willing to stand behind her if she needs to, and she knows the courage to do the hardest thing of all: talk.But I'm not the only one who realizes what, or rather who caused the change in Gabriela's heart.Her father looks between Gabriela and Damian's smiling face, then at me and Travis."This ... is this all her fault ?!" shouts the governor, glaring at us.Both Travis's eyes and mine widen. It's one thing to see the governor break in with his daughter. It's another thing to have him on a rampage with us."What kind of nonsense have you been filling my daughter's head with? Her job was to get him safely to her destination. At what point did you think it was part of her duty to fill my daughter's head with lofty ideals about love?"Before we can answer, he interrupts
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I fall into bed, relieved to finally lie down and stretch my aching body, it has been such a long and exhausting day both physically and emotionally.At the end of the bed, Travis takes off his everything and when he's down to nothing but his boxers, he flops down on the bed next to me and lets out a huge sigh of relief, grateful as I am to finally rest.Due to the sudden weight of his body and the sagging of the bed (and the fact that I'm used to it by now), I automatically roll onto my side and snuggle against him, resting my head on his chest so that I can feel his breath as he goes up and down. come down, and hear the life pulsing inside him.Travis lifts his head off his pillow long enough to give me a long, lingering kiss on the crown of my head before letting his head unceremoniously fall back onto the pillow. Then he wraps a supportive arm around my shoulders while his other hand absentmindedly rubs the bare arm I've wrapped around his waist.Ever
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