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Pull her closer. Keep her safe, safe, safe.
“But you need to live for me to make it go away,” I whispered against her lips. “You need to let me help you.”
“I don’t know how.”
“The same way you gave up control.” I dragged my teeth over her full bottom lip and growled, “Give me control, Chaos.”
Her head moved back and forth before she subtly nodded. Her fingers tightened in my hair. “Kieran, come back to me.”
Fuck, I wanted to.
My head tilted to the side in challenge.
“Kieran, come back to me.” She brushed her lips across mine and breathed, “I love you. Come back.”
A shuddering breath ripped from my chest. And then another and another.
My body was trembling from the physical drain, but I didn’t move. I focused on Jessica, easier now that everything wasn’t filtered by the dark haze.
“There you are,” she said softly, her mouth pulling into a proud smile. “I knew you could do it.”
I dropped my mouth onto hers, kissing her slowly.
Dragging my mouth over her jaw and down her throat, I lightly kissed the bruises then nipped at the spot behind her ear that made her writhe beneath me. “Say it again,” I pleaded. “I need to hear you say it without my darkness ruining it.”
A soft giggle sounded in her throat. “I love you.” She gripped my hair to bring my mouth to hers then spoke against it. “I love you, I love you, I love you.”
Our next kiss was rough and urgent and made me want to start erasing her demons now. But I knew she needed time after what had happened. “Keep yourself alive for me.”
I was so consumed in the girl beneath me, and the assurance I was waiting for, that I never heard him until he cleared his throat.
I was on my knees and throwing a knife within a second.
Beck cursed and fell into the bathroom immediately before the knife hit the wall where he’d been standing. “Jesus fuck, man,” he yelled as he staggered into the room.
“Announce yourself,” I growled in response.
“Eleven years of this shit,” he bit out and yanked on the handle until the knife jerked free. “I’m so over almost dying because you don’t know it’s me.
”
“Announce yourself,” I repeated.
He narrowed his eyes at me then dragged them to Jessica.
A rumble sounded deep in my chest when his wounded stare stayed where she lay with the towel now barely covering her.
His eyes bounced between us again before he started walking through the room. “I’ll be in the living room.”
I watched him barrel down the hall, not bothering to close the door on his way out, then looked at Jessica.
With a weighted breath, I said, “He’s right. We need to talk.”
She nodded, but didn’t respond.
“Do you have something you can put on?”
“Your shirt from last night,” she mumbled with a small smile.
