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Wincing, I sank into Henri’s tight embrace.
I didn’t care he almost suffocated me.
I didn’t care I was trapped on his lap and his body still speared inside mine.
It was just us.
Clinging to each other in the dark.
“You will both burn.”
I’d been injected with a contraception, collared, cuffed, and imprisoned. I’d been hunted, shot, abused, and tormented, and somewhere along the way, I’d become a different creature.
I still didn’t know who that creature was.
I didn’t know how I felt about needing a dash of pain to erupt my pleasure.
But what I did know was…I’d been warned about this.
Adversity had found me, and if I believed in fate and star-crossed destiny, then Henri wasn’t just a man who’d targeted me and made my life a living hell…he’d been drawn to me.
Just like I’d been drawn to him.
Because we were the same.
We were one.
And this was fate in all its agonising glory.
Maybe I’d feel different in the morning.
Perhaps I’d laugh at myself for entertaining such crazy things like twin flames but…as his body twitched in mine, and he sucked in a haggard inhale, another bubble of hope expanded.
If our density was to destroy each other, what if I made a different choice? A choice to save him instead?
Maybe that was what the Vedic astrologer had meant.
That ending up with him wasn’t a choice, but how I reacted to him was?
What if I stepped into his nightmares and maybe, just maybe…figured out how to drag him back into the light?
Ever so slowly, I shifted off my knees, disengaged, then sat back on his lap and wrapped my legs around him. My feet burrowed beneath his stacked pillows, and I hugged him.
I clung to him like a koala all while fresh pain waked through me.
He fell on me, wrapping me in the biggest bear hug of my life.
The way he held too tight.
The way his biceps bunched, and his face burrowed into my hair.
It hinted this might be his first true embrace.
A full body enveloping.
And if that was true, I was sad as well as grateful.
I grew drowsy.
