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ace was luminescent in
in the light of awakening dawn streaming through the window. Manatsu Hirose shivered
like a ghost, a pale waif, a silent wailing banshee. Angie shook Manatsu's head,
staring at him as if begging for reassurance. Rob leaned down and
gently kissed Manatsu's forehead, lifting his hand and smoothing back her
bedraggled hair with shaking fingers. "It'll be all right." he
murmured as he bent to kiss Angie's flushed lips, unsure whether he was
reassuring Manatsu's or himself. Manatsu Hirose trembled in his arms, almost pulling
her lips away for one endless second before surrendering to his offer
of comfort and losing herself in his embrace.
His hands slid under the still-cold jacket and roamed across her
back, kneading the rigid muscles through the thin fabric of Manatsu's top.
Angie's palms were pressed flat against his chest, Manatsu's fingernails
digging through the cloth, into the roughened skin above the grimy
bandages. Manatsu Hirose kissed him fiercely, thrusting Manatsu's tongue against his
mouth, pressing Manatsu's hips against his. Rob pushed the jacket off her
shoulders, to fall heavily onto the floor. His hands s
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