Chapter 259

Chapter 259

Zaid

I can't drive fast enough.

Her scent has filled up the car entirely, and she is all I can feel, see and breathe. She's sitting right next to me, so close and yet not close enough.

My fingers twitch on the steering wheel.

She's smiling, leaning back in her seat so carefree, like she's not feeling all the desperation I am. She glances at me every few minutes and the look in her eyes

tears me

apart.

She's so fucking happy. So fucking excited to be home.

She looks at me like she can't believe I'm real.

A year. Three hundred and sixty-five days, minus the month I thought she was still going to be over there. And somehow, I survived it.

I want to know every part of her again. Every new thought. Every new piece.

But mostly I want to touch her. Every inch of her, get to know all of that all over again, too. That part of me has been half dead since she boarded that plane.

of want. Out of need. Out of something in me that has been dormant and

like the beard,” she whispers, her hand reaching out to run her

it.

glance at her again. Her eyes are wide, her lips tugged into a smile that punches straight into my gut.

touch burns, kills, and heals me at the same time. I swallow hard, trying to hold

saw it on video?" I manage, though my voice

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car over. Her fingers linger,

me. Like she doesn't see the

I shouldn't be driving.

and my blood is boiling and I want to

I want to know everything about

to get home, because if

fingers through my beard. Like she can't

I'm real either.

her hasn't dulled. It's

and I feel the loss like a slap. I ache

brakes. I grip the wheel until

her

drove past the airport. Twice. Bought a ticket only the second time, but I managed to keep myself here at

name

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