#Chapter382
/"We just haven’t been here since …/" The words catch in my throat painfully as I try to change the subject, shamed at being such a fool. Like I just rammed a cactus down my neck, unable to finish the sentence as it bites me.
Alexi sighs heavily, his embrace noticeably firming up to get me as bodily close as possible. That sense of security flanking me as he does. I can almost feel his relief at being able to touch me again and realise it must have been killing him to be so close yet so far apart while torturing himself over this whole mess. His distance was because he knew proximity would make him touch me impulsively.