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“I told you before about a dream I had.” I stare him right in the eye, willing him to listen, to reallylistento what I’m saying. “In that dream, I watched Rylan kill you and Kade, and Dariel killed me because it was my fault you were dead. Now you are forcing me to watch that dream come to life. No. That isnothappening. If I have to kill myself, then I will—”
Aden steps into me, his eyes flashing with a fury I haven’t seen in him before. Despite his fury, the hands he frames around my jaw are gentle. He shakes his head once. Hard.
“No.”
The smile stretching my lips is a small one. It feels sad because I do. “I wanted to escape him, but I don’t think I was meant to survive this or him. Sam is. And so are all of you.”
He claims my lips in a bruising kiss.
He’s never kissed me like this before. Only Kade has.
But it’s Aden, and from almost the moment I laid eyes on him, he’s never been someone I feared. He was always someone I wanted to trust, so I lean into his kiss and let my eyelids flutter closed.
He softens the kiss and slides his arm around me before hauling me into his chest. Close. Heart to heart. His is pounding almost as hard as mine is as I wrap my legs around his hips and he backs us into the wall, using his arm to cushion my back.
I’m threading my fingers through the soft strands of his thick, blond hair, wanting to absorb every last second I have with him before this all ends, when he breaks the kiss.
Breathing hard, he rests his brow on mine.
“You’re not doing this,” he whispers harshly. “Because I love you. And Ineedyou to be safe.”
Tears fill my eyes. “You do?” I whisper.
He loves me? The girl with the ugly scars, the scarred mind, and all the emotional baggage.
Me?
He claims my lips, a softer, sweeter version of the first. “I do.”
He kisses me again.
And again.
I drape my arms around his shoulders, ignore my throbbing, bruised belly, and cling to him, needing him with every fiber of my body and soul. He groans, stroking one hand down to cup my ass, massage it, and grind his cock in the vee of my thighs, right where I need him the most. Pleasure bursts within me, and I moan into his mouth in response. I rock against him, so he knows I don’t just want more. Ineedmore.
He lifts me, already yanking his sweatpants down, then tugs insistently at mine.
Material tears, and he breaks away. “I’m sorry, I—”
I grab his face and haul him back. “Don’t care. Need you.”
His lips reclaim mine, and I melt into his kiss. When I think of losing him, when I think of not being able to touch or hold him, I sob. My eyelids burn. Hot tears fill my eyes, overflow, and splash onto my cheek and his.
Aden tries to pull away, but I don’t let him go.
I can’t.
I don’t think I could even if I wanted to. When his hands grip my hips and tighten, he gives me one last sweet kiss and draws away. We’re eye to eye, sharing the same air as the tip of him brushes my core, and then he presses inward.
A soft moan spills from my lips, a sound he echoes as he lifts me and draws me back to him. But deeper. I bury my nails in the skin high on his back as I pant, locking my ankles together as my nipples brush his chest.
Needing more skin-to-skin, I shove his shirt up and over his head, tossing it aside before I reach for mine. I don’t even think about the scars on my throat until he dips his head and kisses each one so softly that I let my eyes drift close. And yet somehow, a tear still finds its way between them and onto my cheek.
“I love you.” He breathes the words right in my ear, kisses another scar so ugly no one should want me, and says again, “I love you, Saige Leo. And Iwillsave you.”
I wrap my arms around his back as he lifts his head again to meet my eyes. “You already have.”
Now it’s my turn to save you.
