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He nodded. “I watched the video again and now I see the signs. At first, I didn’t see it because when I watched them skate, I always watched Nicola. But after she told me, I re-watched the video. During that last skate, it was easy to see he was high. She could have easily died then.”

“Yeah, but she didn’t.”

“She could have died last night, and it would have been my fault.”

“Stop that crap, Wulf. The whole world doesn’t revolve around you. And we all thought it was one of those Johnsons. Thompson made sure of it.”

“I brought him into her world.”

“Good God, get over yourself. You Brits are always so damned proper. Alfie Thompson is an asshole, who is going to spend a long time in jail.”

Jensen nodded but he wasn’t convinced.

“If you are so sure that you’re a danger to her, maybe you need to let her go.”

Anger swept through him. “Over my dead body.”

Micah smiled. “Good. She’s good for you, but you’re also good for her. I’m glad you found each other.” When Jensen didn’t say anything, Micah asked, “Youareplanning on a permanent D/s relationship, right?”

“Kind of.”

“What the hell does that mean?” he demanded, and it made Jensen smile. He sounded like an outraged father.

“I have even more permanent plans, as long as she doesn’t screw them up,” Jensen said. “Do you know she wanted to call the press when she woke up? She was worried how it would all play out.”

“I know you probably already know this, but that’s why she is the perfect sub. She’s a control freak, but the type that needs to give it up with someone she trusts.”

“Are you giving me a backhanded compliment?”

“Look how smart you are. Yes. I am. She trusts you. More than she ever trusted me. I talked to her in those early days she worked with you. She never used your name, but she always had complete belief in your ability to overcome the addiction. Even after the one setback. Her faith in you always worried me until I met you. I knew then what you both just figured out. You need each other.”

“Is this where you say we complete each other?”

He smiled. “No. You already know that. Seeing you together, just those few minutes in the room upstairs showed me.”

He sighed. “I still can’t believe I almost lost her.”

“Need a hit?”

“What?”

“Hey, we all know how you met Nicola, and the entire world has access to your drug days via the internet. I would think that you would be jonesing for a hit right about now.”

He did also, but it never came. The need to escape, to control his world, it wasn’t there.

“No.”

Micah cocked his head to the side and studied him. “Really?”

“Surprised the hell out of me too.”

“That’s good.” He studied Jensen another moment. “I know exactly how you’re feeling.”

“I highly doubt that.”

He snorted. “When I met Dee, she was on the run from her father, who had put a hit out on her. I almost lost her too. Hell, when her brother kidnapped her, I worried Ihadlost her.”

“Her brother?”

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