Chapter 156

SIENNA

He kissed the top of my head. “Because you’re mine. And because you deserve it. Both can be true.”

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Later, in bed, I curled into him instinctively. Spooning into his chest like a cat finding its warmest corner. His arm was heavy around me, his breath steady in my hair. My body still ached, used and wrung out, but here—in this cocoon of warmth—I felt safe.

It was in that safety t