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77. Wash it Away – Part 3
~ CASIMIR ~
The combined pleasures of her enveloping my body as the water washed against my skin, the ripple and splash under her soft cries, and the sigh of her pink skin in the haze of the steam all conspired to steal my wits.
Then she dropped her head and her hair parted, revealing the claiming scars, puckered and pink on the other shoulder and a jolt of need crackled through me.
But I had a grip on myself this time. I had prepared for this. I knew what to do.
Jesse and I were bonded, it was true. Claiming her had tied us together. We needed each other. It couldn’t be denied.
But love? Love was no part of that. It would only complicate things and create
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