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“You are more powerful than you know,” I whisper, though she cannot hear me.
I feel her manifest on the road to the winery and rush over to meet her. When she catches sight of me a few yards ahead of her, she stops and stares.
I walk toward her, and she starts running. She jumps, throwing her arms and legs around me, and I catch her, cradling her bottom in my palms. I kiss her long and hard, like a dying man who’s just found water in the desert. Her legs tighten around my hips as she meets my enthusiasm head on.
“Where’ve you been?” she asks, breathless.
“Closer than you think.”
“But I couldn’t find you.”
I smooth her hair away from her face.
“I just needed some time, and a little space to think.” Time to face my own delusions and mourn the loss of hope. Space to embrace the inevitable: that I will never escape the prison her father has trapped me in.
“Space?” Her body tenses. “In the movies, when guys say they need space, they mean they want to date other girls.”
I curse myself for staying away for as long as I did. Time flows differently on this side of the coin. Three days in the physical world can pass like an hour in the twilight realm. I kiss her cheeks.
“There are no other girls, Mariah. I’m sorry I disappeared on you. It won’t happen again.” It’s a promise I feel comfortable making, because unless Edward kills me, I literally cannot break it.
She releases her hold on my hips, sliding both feet to the ground. “What happened to you? Where’d you go?”
I press my forehead to hers, trying to recall the memory of her taste on my tongue, without also summoning the awful visions that haunted me.
“I remembered something that upset me very much,” I tell her.
“What did you remember?”
I shake my head. “It doesn’t matter.”
I kiss her again. Normally, she wouldn’t let me get away with dodging her questions, but she’s enjoying the kiss too much to make me stop.
Her hand brushes my cock. I inhale sharply and force myself to back off. It’s a gargantuan effort that I didn’t know I was capable of.
“Easy, tiger,” I say. “I saw what happened to you in the wine cellar. Are you all right? Do you want to talk about it?”
She frowns like I’ve just dumped water all over her campfire.
“Do I look like I want to talk about it?”
Her eyes glimmer with unshed tears. I pull her close as they start to fall.
“I tried to push him off me,” she whispers. “He was so strong.”
“So were you,” I say. “What you did to those wine bottles was incredible.”
“I don’t know how I did it.” She takes a shuddering breath. “All that glass, the wasted wine. I didn’t mean to make a mess.”
“Don’t give it a second thought.” I meet her gaze. “You were defending yourself.”
She nods. “What’s happening to me, Will?”
“I don’t know.” But I do know someone who could help guide her through it.
I kiss her again and then take her by the hand. “Come on, I want you to meet someone.”
“Who?” she asks. “Where are we going?”
