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100. Stronger
~ JESSE ~
I swallowed hard and blinked out of the vivid memory.
It stunned me a little when Cazz hesitated—scared me that he might get aggressive like he had when I’d accidentally called the pack at the Den. And yet… he hadn’t turned it on me. Hadn’t blamed me. He had asked me a question like an adult, and then… persuaded me. And honestly, I had been nervous, but his assurances had given me hope that maybe this wouldn’t be a bad experience. And now… now that I saw what he was doing, I would follow him over that particular cliff any day of the week.
There’d been something very unexpectedly intimate about being so helpless. And I could feel
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