He stepped back, letting her hands go and breaking the contact between them. She blinked up at him in confusion and he couldn’t help the hand that he lifted to her cheek. He gently ran his knuckles down the side of her face and neck and her eyes closed with a sigh. Before he could take her against the wall, which was what he desperately wanted to do, he turned away and let himself into his apartment, not game to look back at her and see the hurt he knew would be in her eyes.

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