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.

just out of want. Out of need. Out of something in me that has been dormant and half-dead since the night she boarded

she whispers, her hand reaching out to run her

it.

her lips tugged into a smile

at the same time. I swallow hard, trying to hold myself together like

it on video?" I manage, though my voice sounds like it hasn't

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pull the car over. Her fingers linger, brushing over my jaw. It's like

Like

I shouldn't be driving.

and my blood is boiling and I want to lean

I want to know everything

get home, because if I don't kiss her soon, I might lose

fingers

I'm real either.

her hasn't dulled. It's

feel the loss like a slap. I ache for

until my knuckles ache, my jaw locked

her from

time, but I managed to keep myself here at home. I went to

her name in

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