Helanie:
"What is that?"
I didn’t know why I was so shocked and freaked out for him that I didn’t even wait for him to put on a new shirt. Also, once it was hidden, he would never tell me what it was.
As he turned around, surprised, I saw another strange thing in the middle of his chest.
"And what is that?" I pointed at the handprint on his chest.
"Helanie, would you like it if I saw you without a shirt on?" That was his way of trying to teach me not to stare, but it came off very weird.
"I want to know what these are. And in return—you can watch me completely naked," I snapped at him because of his reaction.
He would go shirtless around others when he was shifting, but he acted all moody around me?
He quickly put on a white shirt, then placed his hands on his waist and looked at me with a complaining expression.
"Nice abs though," Cora commented, and my eyes moved down to his stomach, even though he was now fully dressed.
"Later," I said to her, copying Norman’s pose and putting my hands on my waist too.
"What was that? Are you going to tell me or not?" I demanded. He knew everything about me and my life, so I should know about him too.
"That’s none of your business," he said in a bitter, bratty tone, trying to shut me down.
"It wasn’t a bite mark—it was a tattoo, that’s what it was. Why would you get a handprint and a bite mark tattooed on your body?" I complained, realizing he was getting angrier by the second.
"You’re being very nosy, Helanie," he said, pointing his finger at me. Before I could snap back, my eyes landed on my purple sweater—and then a memory hit me.
As it did, I gasped and covered my mouth with both hands.
"What? What do you remember?" Even the way Norman asked made me wonder if I had caught it right.
He suddenly looked so interested, even stepping towards me to ask what I had realized.
"Don’t," I warned him from coming closer. Not because I was mad at him, but because I was so shocked.
"Tell me," he almost jumped up and down like a child when demanding the answer.
"That is—that is where I bit you that day when my sweater—oh, is that my bite mark?" It was a huge reach, but it had to be.
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