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Once Luciano is gone, Raya melts into my side, and I sigh heavily with the feeling of her body against mine. It's the most comforting thing, and it's effortless.
I can't imagine anything more relaxing than just feeling her presence. Her face, her voice, her touch—every aspect of her is home. I'm so fucking grateful, and I will always be. I'm never going to take this sweet girl for granted.
"It will get better," I tell her with a soft chuckle, referring to the number of tense feelings that have already arisen in this vacation so far. I can feel them corded in her muscles and in the acute rigidity of her fingers when they snake across my chest seeking the the same calm that her presence offers me.
It was never my expectation that the four of us would just jump on a plane and have all of our problems disappear. Not in the slightest. This is not a looped, separate reality that I'm trying to bring Raya into in order to make her my wife.
