Avery had used that as an excuse to distance himself again, but then Nellie showed up that night at the club, and she had Morgana in tow, and they offered, and he didn't say no. The night was clear and bright, and as I left the city proper behind, stars studded the sky like someone had spilled a bag of diamonds across the velvet of it. I leaned over him, pressed my mouth to his, and it was as if I could feel his soul down the long tunnel of his body, as if I knew how to reach in and snatch it away. Her eyebrows went up, but it was all I could see of her eyes behind the dark sunglasses.
What? Micah asked. And I was back in his office, with my blood drying on my body, and my breast beginning to ache, and I was crying. It roared back to life on the edge of Nathaniel's lips, his hands, his need. Only that would satisfy.
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