Swiftcurrent Creek [m] hope ur okay

She curled in closer to him—she didn’t push him away. It was a subtle gesture, perhaps to her—but from a man who had been in a marriage where his wife had only pushed him away when things had gotten particularly hard, it gave him a sense of lifting hope—

— was this was how it was supposed to be?

“I mean… I can definitely help with one of those things,” he rumbled lowly, his breath playing upon her ear before he gave her a casual nip. So much for behaving himself, it seemed.