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Alessia
I stood on the balcony with a racing heart. Covered in blood and silently elated that I followed through with murdering Elliot.
My father was bigger fish, but Elliot… he did nothing but restrain me that night and ever since, I’d longed for the day I could slit his throat just as Luigi had slit Rían’s.
Breathing heavily, my gaze to the ground, I wondered why I didn’t feel disgusted by what I had done and that was when he approached.
The tattooed boy from the party.
I’d thought my mind was playing tricks on me.
When I had danced with my delusion, he’d made his way from my psyche.
That this was just another fantasy, another ache in my dwindling heart. Yet here he stood, staring at me with those same cold ocean blues that had hardened with the brutality of living a difficult life. He stalked toward me, like a stealthy predator and I found myself straightening. My back and throat extended as he stepped into me and placed his gentle hands on my bloodied hips.
“Why must the fates be so cruel, Rían ?” I whispered lowly, my eyes entranced with his unyielding stare. “I dream of you still, after all of these years.”
I heard his silent gasp, my gaze now drawn to the bob in his heavily inked throat as he swallowed quickly, “You danced alone, Lessie. Then you cried. Were you dancing with a dead man, baby?”
I nodded, my heart in a deeply rooted anguish when his husky tone purred against me. “Always.”
“I’m real, Lessie. I’m alive and I’ve came back for you.”
No matter how many years had passed or how hard and raw his tone had grown, I’d know that voice anywhere. It was my turn to gasp at his continued speech, wrapped around me like a soft, silken caress.
When it grew stronger instead of fading away, I questioned if maybe this wasn’t a dream.
“Who did you kill, Lessie?” he asked without judgement, without shame and I took pride in the smile that bloomed across my face.
“Elliott. The man who stopped me from saving you.”
“You killed for me, darlin’?”
I smirked at him, without reply. The answer was as vibrant as the cherry red that covered me. Rían tightened his hold on my skin, rough fingers bit into my flesh bruisingly and I quivered with the intensity.
The second my lips parted, his heated mouth covered mine in a soul searing kiss that energized the darkness that had held me in a vice all of these years. He took me away, and danced with me through the stars. I’d never felt anything like it, and when that bite of pain turned into a dangerous kind of pleasure, I threaded my fingers through his hair and pulled him in close. Holding onto him as if he’d slip through my fingers one last time.
Rían, spun me and bent me over the railing. My long dark hair billowed freely in the wind and when I risked a glance at the plummeting depths, my heart dropped to my pussy and throbbed like it was beating just to survive.
As if it was beating for him.
“God, I’ve missed you,” he rasped as he buried his face in the crook of my neck. Trailing his nose up the length of my throat inhaling my scent. “Hmm, Peppermint and Rose. I’ve dreamed of this scent, baby. I’ve dreamed of you.”
My entire body came alive, buzzing with electricity. Chilled with beaded little pebbles of anticipation.
“I’ve got to admit, the years haven’t changed my feelings for you, but they’ve definitely perverted them.” I moaned at his touch because he was right, we had once been innocent children who took comfort within each other’s company. I’d known butterflies and heart flutters when I had been around him. Now though, it was a carnal kind of lust brewed from a childhood of longing and need. I’d built him up so vividly in my mind’s eyes, that everything we had once felt had transcended time and space.
It transcended everything that was deemed normal.
I had this urge, this need for the hole inside of me—for whatever reason it’d opened in the first place—to finally close.
He was the key to that fractured lock and I’d use all he could give me to make me whole again.
The growl that echoed behind me made my stomach dip and my pussy clench. My breathing was thick with ease, welcoming whatever he wanted to do to me. “ I thought you were dead.” My senses came back to me slowly. Anger, hotter than the sun had ever been on my skin during a hot summers day, ignited and heated my chest. “I watched you die.”
“Hmm, you did. I have been dead, Lessie. Dead, every single day I went without you. But I’m back now, and we’re going to make them fucking pay. Are you with me, baby? Or do I have to make you pay too?”
The sexual zest in this tone, had my hips gyrating against the breeze, but I knew better than to miss the bite of warning there.
