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Chapter 43 – The First Lesson

Eli

I can barely breathe.

Not because I can’t. Not because he won’t let me. Because I don’t want to. Because every time I draw in a lungful of air, it smells like him.

Like sweat and heat and hunger. Like dominance wrapped in pine and smoke. Like the edge of something sharp, dark, and inevitable....