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palm up to her. "Come on, then." I smiled at her. "Let's see the damage?"

@BadBoyEmbryCall

Once again there it was, he believed in laying it all out for people to see. Whereas I believed in a private life. The world came to their own conclusions time and time again, it wasn’t my responsibility to correct them or bring them into my life. And yet it was his way to do what I had been doing all along. Keeping them out of the things he didn’t want them to see. “A game of mirrors.” I muttered to myself. -

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Make someone feel like they are witnessing something, while all along you are hiding what is really happening.

“You… knew?” Confusion dancing in my eyes, until his smile was back. The one that touched his eyes, and showed the purest side of him. But he knew? He knew if I closed that door, that was it.

“When are you ever ready to walk away?” I wasn’t mocking him, it was a fact. Embry Call didn’t walk away from the pa— From the people he cared for. -

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I shook my head, because this was something we both should know about the other. “I know this Call. I may have kicked your arse, I may have made you pay for it. But I wouldn’t have held it over your head. And I know you wouldn’t too.” Which is why I’d asked him to go.

“You… even after everything you’ve managed to see these last few weeks doesn’t show you that you need to be protected from me?” Had he not understood it all? -

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“I needed to know… to understand. Were we just swept up in something and confused by everything? Or…” I may have thought it before, but that had been the reason I had to stop my mind, stop the thinking ahead, and see what it was. “I’m not saying I have all the answers. Far from it.”

He slipped up the couch towards me and I stilled, reminding myself not to react, to push the past back and to listen to him. -

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Raising my eyebrows I glanced at his outstretched hand. This was once again one of those things that played on my mind. How he always held his hand out. Asking me to believe in him.

Moving the bag from the top, I played with trying to move my fingers. “It’s okay,” I tested them a few times, thinking about his hand, and how he wanted me to place mine in it. Slowly I lifted my hand slightly, placing my hand over his. “Trust me, I’ve had worse. I’ll be fine soon enough.”

@HotHeadSheWolf
“Yeah... Something there's things that you just know are final.” It wasn't just because of Leah either. I wasn't known for revisiting the past either. But those people weren't a part of my life.

Leah was. And her part in mine... Was getting larger by the day. As mine was in hers. Raised my hand until it met hers; palm-to-palm. The fingers of my other hand brushed lightly over the preceding swelling. “It will be like it never happened in no time all.” I whispered like she had >

@HotHeadSheWolf
< with her comment about mirrors. My hand moved up her arm. My gaze fixed on its slow progress the heat reminding of her fingers tracing the wolves in my tattoo the evening we fixed her door.

“Spirit’s... You're so warm.” I gave a disbelieving chuckle, it was so strange to touch someone that wasn't cooler than my own.

Smiling eyes met her, and my teeth pulled on my bottom lip. My hand reached her shoulder and I trailed my touch towards the base of her throat. Just daring to >

@BadBoyEmbryCall

I found myself watching him, really watching. Seeing the things that I hadn’t even thought to look for.

He had always been one of those kids who was around, following, showing up and then all our lives changed. We all grew up, all in the same path, and still on individual lines for us to walk too.

How I’d never seen it before I didn’t know. But this here had been a path the Spirits guided us towards for a while now? And yet, each step of the way. -

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It had been a choice we had been making to bring us here.

My brown eyes flickered to our hands now, following how his came up to mine. Something connected at the moment our palms touched. A hum on the air told a story, one I knew somehow would only grow if we let it.

I heard Embry, and knew those words weren’t for me. But my heart reacted because I knew that the proof of my actions may leave no marks, but what I did to him -

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tonight would still sit in my bucket of sins. I’d let my guard and walls cause him pain.

“You are warm too.” I swallowed hard. I knew this. But… “Not cool to the touch at all.” Something in my stomach awoke. And I wasn’t sure what it could be. My eyes followed his fingers, he didn’t feel cool. My body didn’t react in the way it did when I touched others.

We both we’re the same. -

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I glanced up at him again to find his eyes on me already. That heat I felt growing up the sides of my neck when I kissed him, had started to crawl it’s way towards my face again seeing him biting his lip.

My breathing stopped as his finger traced their way to my throat, I stilled letting it all sink in. My mind had stopped too, the only way I knew I wouldn’t run from this, from him. And then I heard his heart. Opening my eyes to watch him again.

“Embry…”

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My voice was a low whisper as his name slips from my lips. He had to know I could hear his heart.

@HotHeadSheWolf
I heard the changes in her heart and the way she held her breath when my hand moved.

The way she said my name made my stomach do that leaping thing again.

I swallowed hard and leaned into her again, almost nose to nose with her. My hand moved and I brushed my thumb along her jaw before resting my palm on her cheek. The heat was incredible, so unexpected. I took a long deep breath. How had I never noticed how good she smelled before now? The feeling of it washing over me >

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< made me close my eyes. “You smell amazing, too.” speaking the words intentionally this time.

I slipped my hand back and my fingertips brushed against her hair, I stopped. I knew how she was about her hair.

I shifted closer to her on the couch again. My breath catching my throat and moved closer to her lips, giving her every hint that I was going to kiss her again. And plenty of time to stop me if she wanted to.

@BadBoyEmbryCall

I was frozen in my spot, of all the thing I could say, could feel, could react to. It was how it felt to be close to him that had me lost.

This wasn’t the first time we’re were close. We trained, we played, spirits he grabbed me and threw me off the cliff not so long ago. But right now, sat here beside him. The way his hand slipped up caressing my skin…

All thought stopped when I felt my hair move. My hand fisted a little but then it eased. That dread I felt when anyone -

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Touched my hair was something I expected to feel. But that sensation didn’t come. It wasn’t there, at all.

He left a line of fire over my jaw, astonished at how no other had been able to touch me the way I was letting him. Did that come from trust? It had too.

He took a deep breath like he was inhaling the moment, and I knew… I knew that this time he was asking, giving me time to run, to stop him. But I didn’t want to. I was feeling a pull towards him just as he was -

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Towards me.

My eyes found themselves looking at his lips until he spoke. I smelt amazing? That wasn’t something you heard from someone you knew all your life.

What was I meant to even say? So, I said nothing and just watching him. The anticipation building in the pit of my stomach.

My couch moved beneath us and that’s when I felt his heat. My hands resting on his chest, I tilted my head. Our lips just inches from each other.

“I promise… not to punch you.”

@HotHeadSheWolf
She wasn't pulling back, or pushing me away. I wasn't ever someone that held back like this... The only thing i wanted more than to kiss right her right now was for her to want me to.

It had been a long time since a wondering if girl wanted me to kiss her not... people were generally easy to read. But Leah... she was written in a whole different language. The corners of my mouth quirked up when she spoke but only for a second until I brought my mouth down on her.

I low hum >

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rumble in my chest, the release of the anticipation and the overwhelming sesantion on my stomach.

I pushed down the animal instinct to pull her closer, there was something more here, something that would pass us by if we didn't see it through. The kiss was light and long, and breathtaking.

I leaning in further; breaking the contact only to take steadying breath, and when I kissed her again my lips moved against hers the way se'd kissed me outside. That same feeling of the >

@HotHeadSheWolf
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world falling away swept in and I let it. My ither hand lifted to her shoulder and i slide my hand into her hair like the worries of her reaction to it had never entered my mind.

I parted her lips with mine and another new shound felt me when i felt the heat of her breath on my lips.

The wikd instincts swelled up again but I was here to try and claim her, all I wanted was this kiss, I expected nothing beyond this moment. It was new... my heart thumped wildly in my chest.

@BadBoyEmbryCall

The moment his lips touched mine the world around me melted away. The hum of the spirits was gone like he being this close to me had closed the doors on them. Asking them to give us a second to see this through.

My heart stopped for a count before restarting again. And I tried to stop myself thinking ten steps ahead. He always talked about being in the moment, and I rolled my eyes at it. And now, I was trying to be here in the moment.

My fingers curled and fisted up the -

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front of his shirt, and I leant into him a little. I didn’t mov into him completely because something told me that the is wasn’t like the others. He wasn’t like the others.

My lips stopped, when his hangs were in my hair. But I did as I promised… I didn’t punch him. Because like before, his touch brought with it a calm and not a madness.

There was swell of sensations growing and perking their head up. My stomach, the hum over my skin, the tingle over my lips. All feeding -

@BadBoyEmbryCall -

This pull towards him.

I fought to catch my breath when he pulled away, and then he was back again. My lips feel open and my tongue entwined itself around him and for the first time, I really teased him.

My hand flatten over his chest, telling him I was listening to the sound of his unspoken words.

@HotHeadSheWolf
I heard her heart change rhythym, felt her hands gripped the front of her shirt. it ws like gravity was hifting us closer togehter... but everything... every single thing she did told me that she wanted me to kiss her.

Leah Clearwater wanted to be kissed... by me? What in the name of the Spirit's was happening here? A question i couldn't answer yet, but i didn't care i just trusted that those answers would come in due time.

I low mona left my lips when i tasted her >

@HotHeadSheWolf
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tongue against mine. My finger were stil combed into her hair, my hand resting easily on the back of her neck the other moved down her arm and then slipped around her waist. My finger bunching up the back of her shirt now.

I had kissed a lot of people... but now... i couldn't understand hat had been appealing about it. This felt like nothing else i had ever experienced. Not even in the minds of the other guys. My chest was rising and falling faster and my >

@BadBoyEmbryCall

The hum in the air began to flow over my skin. My bare arms started to feel small bumps growing over them. I knew what they were, but I’d never had them in years. Goosebumps? I was kissing someone... no... not someone... I was kissing Embry Call, and I wasn’t questioning it. Because I knew if I started to question this now, there was a likely chance that my walls would go back up.

My hands moved up over his shoulders, slipping over his -

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neck feeling the warm skin that was the same as mine. And then they were in his hair. His Hair… I was holding Embry Call close, kissing him and he was kissing me back… Tilting my head to the side a little I deepened the kiss, and then in need of a breath I pulled back resting my forehead against his.

Closing my eyes, my chest rising and falling to the beat of his heart, I kept my eyes closed trying to pull some words together.

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@BadBoyEmbryCall -

“What are you doing to me?”

Of all the things, I found it best to say what you were thinking. And the pounding in my chest wasn’t a reaction I was used to having.

@HotHeadSheWolf
This was like the most vivid dream I had ever had. But how could I dream something I had never felt before?

The way it felt to have her lips against mine, the taste and scent and feel of her overtaking all of my senses. then her hands started to move set trails of fire in their wake. Her fingers were in my hair and shivers bolted down my spine. Hell! mine were hers and I was still breathing!

There was no way I could dream what I felt like to share each breath with her. It >

@HotHeadSheWolf
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was happening.

My heart felt like it could punch through my chest when she deepened the kiss. When she lay her forehead against mine i kept my eys shut, my hand slipped back to her cheek... I never touched a woman like that before, I never wanted to. But with her it just seemed like the most natural thing to do.

Her heart was pounding as hard as mine. "I have no idea." I whispered breathlessly, my forehead touched to hers and now I did pull her closer, >

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"But... What it is... is amazing?"

@BadBoyEmbryCall

“Amazing?” Of all the things, something
Amazing coming out of the way this night had gone was surprising.

He sounded like Embry, and not all at the same time. Again it was hard to put into words, but something was different in the way his word sounded to my ear.

My eyes fluttered open when my body moved closer into him, he had moved me… I never let that happen, or more so it wasn’t something men could do. When I dug in, there was no moving me.

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And it was another thing I hadn’t thought of. “I can’t break you…” it was low, a whisper for only our ears.

I hadn’t tried to break him, but the fact that he was still sat her. And for once I hadn’t had to worry about holding him too tight, of pushing him too hard.

My mind was clearly all over the place, so unlike me. With the way it darted around from place to place.

@HotHeadSheWolf

I couldn't help smiled when she echoed the word back to me. Her voice was breathy, I hadn't heard her like this before. The closer she moved, the deeper the feeling of belonging got. And then her words opened up a whole new to me.

She wasn't fragile... I could hurt her. Not unless I set out to and that wasn't going to happen. I didn't need to a check myself with her, or worry about causing her pain accidentally. I flattened my hand against her back and moved it up. Feeling >

@HotHeadSheWolf
< the heat and the defined muscles there.

Now it was my turn to echo her words back. “I can’t break you...” and voicing the thought seemed to break a dam somewhere inside. “Really... Don’t kill me this time,” I whispered and then I pulled her against me the heat of her and the feel of her against me woke up my whole body. My hand slipped to the back of her neck and I kissed her harder than before.

I hadn’t taken hold her like this before because all I’d wanted to do >

@HotHeadSheWolf
< was follow this feeling to be close to and let whatever this feeling was to take hold.

I didn't want to claim her, or paw at her the way I was sure had happened to her too often in the past. But this... This was different this was exploring a new possibility with her.

I grained softly into the kiss, tasting her tongue again and holding her tightly against me. Not painfully tight, just allowing my body to give in the natural instincts it had in a moment like this. It was >