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Hundreds are in this room, looking at us, and I don’t know who I’m looking at.
The points of my heels touch his bare toes, and he’s still inches taller than me. The sky in his eyes stares down at me, taking in the landscape of my body, the terrain of the pain in my eyes too.
And I’m looking back at his.
Will this ever stop?
“Lightning!” Marco shouts. “I want it. Give me your love again! Your lightning in a bottle!”
Redix wraps his hand around my neck, pulling me near, and the crowd cheers. His grip squeezes hard. The heat of his lips burns inches from mine, and the restraint in his eyes, won’t let me go.
We don’t kiss.
We don’t move.
It’s not part of the performance, and it’s not sure between us. Lights flash, cameras click, and we are bound to the question…
What will we do?
“Libera! Libera! Free!” Marco shouts, directing us. “Your fragrance. Your love. It’s free now!”
“Can we be?” I whisper to Redix, reaching my hand for his hard jaw, sliding it back into his silky strands. “Can we finally be free, Redix?”
I drag hard through his hair, yanking it to pull his lips to mine.
The crowd cheers again.
And we hold for the shot.
For the camera.
For his answer.
It’s seconds before he lifts his lips from mine.
“Is that what you want, Cade?” Agony rages in his eyes with the storm we barely survived. “You want me to leave you? You want to be free of our love forever?”
I reach up, with no direction from Marco, no cameras, no world around us.
It’s just us.
It’s just Redix’s storm and my battered shore, and we must be unleashed.
“No,” I answer him. With a snap, I drop his collar to the floor. “I want us to be free of this. Free of what happened.”
The camera’s clicking like mad, Marco whistles his approval, and the crowd does too, but they’re not here.
We’re there, ten years ago, and right now with Redix’s eyes searching mine. Searching for our future.
“I don’t care if it’s ten seconds,” I swear, “or if you rip me apart, at least we’ll finally be free together, like you know we’re meant to be.”
I feel his lips, so suddenly they’re on mine while his pull snaps off my collar too, and it falls to the floor. My bare skin he’s exposed underneath sighs at the freedom. Our kiss, it’s off-script and out of control, and every sound around us loves it.
Redix’s big hands cradle my jaw, and he’s sharing our love, our pain and passion, and our secret with his kiss.
I know they went after him.
I know they beat him.
