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She sits alone at the tiny kitchen table, a blanket over her shoulders, tapping at her tablet. Her chin jerks up. “Finn?”
I drink her in.
It feels like ages since I saw her. Too long.
Has she gotten more beautiful?
There’s a flush in her cheeks. A sparkling, blushing pink like she’s been drinking glitter smoothies.
Her eyes glitter too. A dark, smoky grey that cuts through the nothing.
I love when she levels those eyes at me, when her nose wrinkles and she furrows her brow, cute as shit. “You picked my lock?”
“Needed to see you.” I swallow her in my arms, pulling her from her chair. She’s color and heat and fucking life.
Lilah melts into me, slipping a soft moan as her arms and legs wind around me.
I carry her into the nest like I already own her. Dropping on the edge of the bed, I sit her so she straddles me, her nose buried against my neck.
I want to feel her teeth in me.
I want her mark.
You don’t deserve her, whispers the darkness.
Don’t I fucking know it. That won’t stop me from claiming her. Won’t stop her from leaving me, either.
But I don’t give a shit about forever.
I just want her now.
A rumble kicks up in my chest, because fuck, I’m angry I haven’t already made her mine.
Lilah jolts like I stuck her thumb in a socket. “Finn! I can’t— We can’t—”
I smooth her hair with the flat of my palm, and a soft, soothing purr, a sound I’ve never made in my fucking life, rolls out of me like I’m a natural. “Can’t what?”
“This.” She pulls away from me. “You and me. Me and your pack. You can’t betray Orion.”
Betray?
“Who’s betraying? We’ll invite him.”
She shakes her head. “I can’t. I’m leaving soon anyway. I—Finn!”
Lilah yelps as I roll us, pinning her to the bed.
Wide-eyed, she stares up at me, her pulse moving in her neck. I want to show her the darkness, but it bleeds away when I feel her underneath me. The soft puff of her breath, her trembling warmth.
She settles me.
The urges, the pain, the nothingness.
Everything fades until it’s just me, Lilah, and the long line of her neck begging for my bite.
I lean to lick her throat.
There’s no strawberry, maple, or cotton candy. No rain or storm or earthy goodness.
