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SLOANE

I WOKE up slowly to find myself wrapped in Rocco. He had one arm over my chest and his leg over my thigh. I was too hot—uncomfortably so—but I let out a content sigh. I shouldn’t get used to this. I shouldn’t want to be here, but he made me feel safe, and that was something I’d been chasing for most of my adolescent and adult life.

After our shower last night, he put me to bed, then spent a