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“No,” I answered honestly. “I don’t regret any of it. Even if it was all fake—”
“It wasn’t fake,” he interrupted. His free hand moved to my bare shoulder, and a chill ran down my spine. “Every fucking day, I wanted to tell you the truth. Every single goddamned day.” Our breathing blended together as he leaned closer. Shit, he was close. I couldn’t back away, though. I didn’t want to. His lips brushed against mine as he said, “I’m on myfucking kneesfor you, Lyra Sol.”
ChapterThirty-Five
Alek moved first—or maybe it was me. His lips moved against mine with all the emotion he had been holding back. His hands scoured against my body, against the bare skin of my arms and my neck.
My body moved without my permission. I pushed against him, tangling my hands in his hair as I crawled onto his lap. My body burned with the need for more of him. Our mouths became one, working together with the same purpose.
And it felt soright.
Alek held my body against his as he leaned back in the bed. He pulled us backward and twisted, flipping so that I now laid beneath his body.
My heart pounded. Could he hear it? Could he tell how badly I had been wanting him?
Alek pressed against me. The weight of him brought the blood back to my limbs, back to my body. The numbness in my chest slowly dissipated, replaced by the fire he breathed into me with each touch.
He used one arm to brace himself above me, and the other to pull my bare leg up and around his waist.
I didn’t object. I had wanted him for so long now, my desire turned to something much more intense.
Ineededhim.
With my leg hooked around him, I pulled on his black t-shirt. My hands ran up the length of his spine, then back down again.
Alek pulled away and met my gaze. “You’re so much more than a blood bag to the veil,” he breathed. “You have no fucking idea how special you are. I don’t deserve a woman like you.”
Tears pooled in my eyes. Alek quickly kissed them away.
“I wish you would have told me the truth from the beginning,” I managed to say. “I–I’ve been protected and sheltered from so many things, Alek. But you?” I brushed my thumb against his lips. “I dropped my walls around you. I let you in.”
“I know,” he whispered.
“Youmademe let you in.”
He leaned his forehead against mine. “I would take it all back if I could. All of it.” He lifted his head again and his dark eyes met mine. “I love you, Lyra. I fucking love you. I’ll protect you with my life if that’s what it takes.”
A sound I didn’t recognize escaped me. Love. Love was never mine to have. It was a foreign concept, something I only heard about when Natalie rambled on.
I certainly got no love from my mother.
Was this love? Was Alek’s feeling for me love?
My heart pounded in my chest.He was here.Alek was the one who pulled me out of the basement. But he did so much more than that.
Alek showed me the light. He showed me how to live. He forced me to take one step after another, even when I saw no reason in moving forward.
I didn’t know much about love. But I did know that I never wanted to be apart from him.
“I love you,” I whispered back.
Alek pressed his lips against my forehead. My eyes shut as he moved, kissing my cheek, my nose, my chin.
“Alek,” I breathed. He lifted my chin with his hand and kissed my throat, leaving a trail of kisses down my neck.
He hummed a response but didn’t stop what he was doing. The towel around my body loosened as Alek moved lower, setting my body on fire as his mouth explored my chest.
Both of my legs wrapped around him now, the towel becoming less and less of a barrier between us.
