Summary: You weigh your decision in the light of a new day.
Rating:Explicit 18+ (By proceeding to read beyond this warning, you are agreeing that you are 18 years or older)
Content:Explicit Smut (Dirty Talk, Fingering, Multiple Orgasms, Size Kink, Innocence Kink, PinV Sex, Javier Peña),Age Gap (15 years), PTSD, Pining, Family Interference, Small Town Dynamics, Descriptions of Injury, Hurt/Comfort, References to Religion
Word Count:9.4K
A/N:Same rules as before! I will be holding onto asks with spoilers until tomorrow night. I will also tag them with #crushspoilers.
Special thanks to @frannyzooey,@astroboots,@write-and-buried for talking me off the ledge more times than I can count, letting me brainstorm with them, and generally just being the supportive beans that they are who I adore to the ends of this earth.
And thank you, thank you, thank you to the Crush fam. For your patience, for your support, for your love of this series (and of Nat Geo), I hope this was worth the wait.
I got a sneak preview of this, because I am just that fucking lucky! and oh my lord!
The emotions I felt reading this, like seeing a before and after picture of heartbreak. To watch Bonita grow up the way she did, was so recognisable to me and to establish the connection between her and Javi as kindred spirits who would ultimately grow up to see each other in the way they do, to see the other for who they are.
This is brilliant and gorgeous like every chapter before it.
