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    The hand sliding up his side wakes him from a roiling, uneasy sleep. At first he thinks it’s Linda, they do like to sleep like that, curled together, her hand under the shirt of his pyjamas and resting on his side, or his belly, or his lower back depending whether he’s on his back or his side, and whether she’s in front or behind him— but then the hand wanders up further, cups the right side of his chest, and he remembers.

     

    ‘Tom?’ he murmurs, voice sleep husky.

     

    Tommy wants Arthur to stay with him the night after Grace is killed. Tommy wants comfort. Tommy wants to make it to the dawn. Tommy wants a lot of things, but what Arthur wants never seems to matter...

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