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I shrug. “I’m going to talk about her. And you’re kind of stuck with me at the moment, aren’t you? Unless you’d rather throw yourself into a snowdrift to avoid confronting your traumatic past.”
“I should’ve let you die in that bush,” he mutters.
“Hindsight is 20/20,” I say sweetly.
“I can still throw you back out there.”
“No. You can’t.” This man would hurt himself before he hurt anyone else, and we both know it.
I put my hands on his cheeks, forcing him to look at me. “I get it. She hurt you. You lost your family, and everyone you love. That doesn’t mean you’ll never love anyone again. The only person who’s keeping you from having a family isyou,now, Cole. You, pushing everyone away, trying to scare off people that care about you, isolating yourself in the damnArctic Circlejust so you never have to make eye contact with a woman again.”
His eyes flash. He opens his mouth. I put my hand over it. “You can have a kid. You can have a wife, and a family. And yes, they might hurt you. We eventually lose everyone we love. That doesn’t mean we should just stoptrying.”
He shakes his head slowly. “You don’t know anything.”
“I knowyou,” I insist. “You don’t hate people, not really. Deep down, you’re kind, and gentle. So why not just give in to—”
“I can’t do it again!” He snaps, cutting me off. “Did Riven tell you how he found me, after I realised the kid wasn’t mine? I was living in a flat in Stockholm’s red light district, getting the shit beat out of me every single night for fun.”
I blink. “What?”
“I was in the underground fighting circuit. It was the only way I felt anything at all. If I’d kept at it, I would’ve died. Iwantedto die.”
Anger, twisted up with pain, rips through me. I drop my eyes to the scars stroking his chest. “These are from—”
“Yes.” A muscle tics in his jaw. “I can’t survive it again. Ican’t.”
My nostrils flare. I get right in his face. “Yes. You. Can,” I growl, practically baring my teeth. “For God’s sake, you wrestle with moose andwolvesand trek through storms for a living, and you think you’re not strong enough to get your heart broken a few times? If the rest of the world can do it, you can. You’re the strongest man I ever met.” I’m so close to him, my tits are crushed against his chest. His heart is battering under the muscle, and I can feel his cock hardening against my stomach. His icy eyes pierce mine as his hand slides down to my hip, squeezing. I push it away. “No.I’m not going to fuck you. You think I want to sleep with a guy who’s too much of a fucking coward to kiss me on the mouth?”
His grip tightens on me. “I’m not a coward,” he says, his voice dangerously low.
“So prove it! Pull yourself together and move on! Let yourself get out of this relationship with a ghost! There are people all over the planet who would want you in their family. Who wouldlove you,Cole, if you just let them in—”
He cuts me off with his mouth.
Twenty-Eight
Daisy
It’s crazy how three kisses can feel so different. Eli’s kiss lit me up inside, filled me up with energy and happiness until I felt giddy and bubbly.
Riven’s kiss had made the rest of the world go quiet, warming me up like a fire.
Cole’s kiss makes me feel like a lightning rod in the middle of a thunderstorm. I moan into his mouth as our lips clash together. Every nerve in my body feels like it’s on fire.
He forces my mouth open and pushes his tongue into me roughly. I shudder, melting as our tongues slide together. Cole kisses like he’s fighting. Wrestling me, trying to get the upper hand. I love it. It makes me feel dangerous, feeding the wild streak in me, turning me into some kind of primal animal. He grasps my hair in his fist, holding it like a ponytail, and yanks my head back. I dig my nails into his neck, then rake them down his shoulders. Heshudders,pressing in even closer. His kiss feelsdesperate,like he’s been wanting it for a long, long time, and now he’s finally doing it, he can’t stop. We get closer and closer, kissing, nipping, sucking. I bite his lip, hard, and he makes a low noise deep in his chest, yanking me onto his lap.
Suddenly, his rock-hard cock is rubbing up against my clit. We both gasp, looking down. The only thing separating us right now is a millimetre of fabric. Slowly, Cole reaches out and touches my waist, cupping his big hands over my ribs. I close my eyes, feeling goosebumps prickle up all over my body. His rough, calloused fingertips swirl down to my hips, squeezing the soft skin, and I can’t help myself from grinding down on him.
His hands pause. “What the Hell am I doing?” He mutters.
I peep open my eyes. “Feeling me up,” I remind him. “Next, why don’t you try touching my tits? They’ve had great reviews.”
He shakes his head, blinking hard, like he’s dizzy. “You don’t want to do this. You like the others.”
“Is that so? What made you come to that conclusion?”
“You only fuck me when one of them is around,” he says simply.
