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I didn’t trust my own mind.

“Gem, I—”

“It’s okay, Kas.” She arched her back, pressing our bodies together, angling me against her wet entrance. “Stay with me. Just...stay, and everything will be okay.”

My eyes snapped closed as instinct took over.

I surged forward.

I thrust my entire length inside her.

She cried out.

I groaned.

We shuddered and clung to each other as the sensation of being whole,of becoming complete swamped me.

I couldn’t move.

I couldn’t breathe.

All I could do wasfeel.

Feel her heat wrapped around me, her heart galloping against mine, her hands latched onto my hips.

My headache roared with new agony, compounding with dizziness and threatening white blankness. Digging my fingers into the dirt, I fought to stay with her. I lost my bearings. I forgot simple things. I growled as the world exploded outward and inward, scrambling me up inside.

Stay.

Stay with her.

Ghosts of Quell, Sarez, and Wes surround me.

The trees whispered with punishments.

The breeze licked across my naked ass like a whip bringing pain.

I couldn’t even thrust inside her.

I was on the precipice of blacking out.

“Gem...I...you need to get away—” I buckled over, crushing her as I fought so goddamn hard not to give in.

She stroked my back.

She kept me anchored.

But it wasn’t enough.

I felt myself slipping, falling, growing dark even as white light blinded me.

CHAPTER SEVEN

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I HAD A REASON for wanting Kas right there and then.

It went past wanting to cement any hope that he’d one day be stable enough not to hurt me. It was more than some misplaced desire after being strangled.