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Because I’m in love with Rory.
And the thought of not making it out of the flames to see her again terrified me.
She rests in my arms, and a wave of contentment settles along my body. I don’t want to just protect how this feels, I want to protect her from everything.
“I’ll do it,” I finally say, breaking the silence.
Rory stirs in my arms.
“Do what?” she murmurs.
“Kill your stepfather.”
Her body tenses.
“I’ll take care of it,” I say.
She rolls onto her back and stares up at me. In the pale light of the moon, her eyes are wide shiny orbs, her skin as pale as a porcelain doll.
I cup her face. “I’ll make him pay for what he did to you and make sure he can’t ever hurt you again.”
Her brows pull in as her gaze searches my face. “Why now? Because we sleep together?”
“No.” My thumb grazes her cheek. “Because I’m in love with you.”
She quickly untangles herself from my hold and sits up. “You don’t want to love me.”
Her words catch me off guard.
“I don’t?”
“No, because love doesn’t lead to anything but heartache.”
“Now you’re beginning to sound like me.”
“I’m serious, Ares. I’ve never been in love, and I don’t ever want to be because the people I love die, and it hurts.”
Her words sting.
Hearing the woman you’ve fallen for tell you that she doesn’t want you to love her is like a searing hot poker to your balls. But I know it’s because she’s scared.
She loves me.
I can feel it in the way she touches me.
It’s in the way she kisses me.
And it’s there in her urgent whimpers when she sinks onto my cock and rides me.
I don’t blame her for being scared.
Being in love with her fucking terrifies me.
She gives me a grave look, her skin pale in the moonlight, her hair cascading over her naked shoulders and down to her breasts.
I reach up to cup her face. “The only person I ever loved died, and for a long time, I didn’t think I’d ever feel this way about someone else. For two decades, I ran from it. But then you came crashing into my world, and things haven’t been the same since. I’m in love with you, little one, and there isn’t a goddamn thing I can do about it.”
A tear slides down her cheek, and I wipe it away with my thumb. “It’s why I want to do this. I want to make him pay for laying his hands on you.”
