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I need to get out of this water right now. I need to get out of this boat, out of this country, out of this planet, out of–
“Oh, he’s here, I assure you.” I drift a fragment of an inch closer to her in the warm water, and immediately I know what kind of a mistake this is. No, dammit. I meant to move away, not closer. Now her face is filling my eyes, those gorgeous, dove-like eyes, those sad lips, those… “YourIsaiah,” I spit, “is right here. But he’s a tad different to what you left behind all those years ago. He’s this Isaiah right now. The Isaiah who would do this.”
And I lean forward until my lips brush hers. My hand cups her throat and she doesn’t draw back, not an inch. Her hand hovers close to mine in the warm water, her body trembling but hovering in place. Not moving an inch. Her skin feels fragile under my fingers, baby hairs tangling with my rings.
“Do what?” she murmurs and her eyes widen.
I know that look. It’s the look she used to give me when she wanted to kiss me so badly she couldn’t breathe. She nearly fell apart in my arms one day when I was about to kiss her–straight up fainted on me, because she wanted me that much.
She was embarrassed afterwards. She called it ‘swooning’.
‘You literally made me swoon,’she’d laughed, looking down, hiding her face with that thick, black hair of hers, and I couldn’t stand it so I kissed the daylights out of her.‘Like one of those stupid girls in my romance novels. What an idiot I am.’
‘Say it again,’I’d said.
‘I’m an idiot.’
‘No. The other thing.’
‘You nearly made me swoon.’
I’d made her ‘swoon’ again within the space of a few minutes.
I had barely caught her before she fell.
It’s the same now. She looks exactly the same, I know it. I knowher.
The vein at the little hollow between her collarbones is pumping like crazy. I can feel her heartbeat thumping beneath her skin.
I close my eyes and breathe slowly through my nose, willing the memory to go away. That’s all I need right now, the memory of her slender, tight little body under my hands… Now that the same body is here, inches away from me, but it’s now filled with curves in all the right places.
And is nearly naked and wet and…
Do what?She asked me a moment ago.
“Do this. Kiss you.” I cup her chin and brush her lips with the tip of my finger, and slide it slowly, torturously slowly all the way down the slope of her chin.
It leaves a wet trail behind and I shiver. My eyes hold hers.
I did not expect the jolt of electricity to shoot up my body and make me so weak I see stars. I shudder and hope she can’t see how my entire body is shaking. Just from that one hint of a touch.
She doesn’t breathe, doesn’t react. Doesn’t do anything. Her body betrays her, jerking closer to my touch, but her face is expressionless. I’m being burned alive here from the inside out, and… nothing. The need to get a reaction out of her, any reaction, seizes me. I drift a fraction of an inch closer.
Our noses touch. Our lips are less than a breath away.
She exhales sharply and I tense.
I bet she wouldn’t do that if she knew what it was doing to me. Killing me, is what it’s doing to me. Making me ache so much in places she’s not allowed to have access to anymore.
“Would you mind that, Eden?” I whisper, careful not to touch her lips with mine as I speak. It’s not easy, we’re that close. “Would you hate it if I kissed you?”
“Why would I?”
My lips brush hers accidentally. She doesn’t move away. Why? She can’t want this, the mere thought is ridiculous. And yet, her legs are already buckling, and I have to grab her by the waist so that she’ll stay upright.
Is she faint from my touch? For my kiss?
For me?
