sickrecord
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"Kar," Nate murmured softly, his voice rough and unguarded, expressing a longing that had been building for years. His thumb gently grazed her jaw with reverence as he confessed, "If I don't kiss you right now, I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life."
Then, his lips met hers.
After seventeen years of knowing him, she finally understood him: every action, every fight had been building up to this. The way his lips moved against hers felt inevitable, as if they had bypassed all the wrong versions of themselves and arrived precisely where they were always meant to be.
The naturalness of it was almost unbearable, how overdue it felt, as if the universe had cruelly delayed it. This moment should have happened long ago, before it ever felt dangerous to desire him.
As he kissed her again, deeper this time, she realized with a quiet, aching certainty-this was what they had always been circling.
𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘹 𝘧𝘦𝘮!𝘰𝘤
𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘢𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘹 𝘧𝘦𝘮!𝘰𝘤