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“It’s not anywhere close to perfect.”
“It is.” She faces me, tucking my large hand in her small one. “You’re too hard on yourself.”
I just want to be perfect for you.
Extending my hand behind me, I retrieve the box there, and she catches sight of it. “This is for you.”
Her eyes dance between the box and me. “What is it?”
“Open it.”
My heart beats so loudly, it’ll rip right out of my chest. What if she hates it? What if she doesn’t wear it?
Her eyes light up as she takes it in her palm, gently popping the top of the black box. Her gaze widens as she registers what’s inside: a silver chain with a pendant of a wolf’s head attached to it.
“This is…” She chokes up. “It’s beautiful.” Her eyes swim with tears.
“Let me put it on you.” My chest warms, seeing her this happy from something so small. SomethingIgave her.
I slip it around her neck, witnessing the vein there jerk when my fingertips brush against her skin. Gently, I clasp the back of the chain, and when she turns to me and I see it on her, I grin likea motherfucker. Because it looks perfect. As though made just for her.
Her fingers trace the wolf with its one red sparkling eye.
“Happy birthday,” I say.
If only I could kiss her. Feel her arms around me as I do. This woman. This poison she’s soaked me in… I can’t fight it much longer.
“Never gonna take it off.” She presses it to her chest.
“I’m glad you like it. How about I take you to the bedroom now so you can rest while I clean up? Then I’ll take you home.”
“Sure, sounds good.” She yawns with a grin. “You’re such a considerate killer.”
And her smile? It breaks me, because a huge part of me feels undeserving of somethingsounexplainably beautiful.
I stare at her, unable to peel my gaze away. This unfathomable sensation pours into my veins until I’m lost to it, as though waiting to be found. I’ve been waiting for so long, not realizing it. Yet I know she can’t be the one. No one is. A man like me isn’t meant for anyone.
An unfamiliar twinge builds in the center of my chest, and I fight it. Fight it like I fight what she does to me.
“Come on, let me take you to bed.” I gesture toward the stairs, climbing up behind her, trying hard not to stare at her ass as I do.
Of course, I fail. It’s a beautiful ass. Don’t need to see it to know that. I felt it in my hands, the soft skin there aching against my palm. She’d look good over my knee with that shirt over her back as I do that again, making her pretty skin red, make her groan and throb for me.
My hand reaches out and wraps around her hip just as she makes it to the top. Out of nowhere, her body jolts as though my touch scared her. Her mouth twitches into a barely there smile asshe swings around.
“S-sorry. I—” She swallows harshly.
“Don’t need to explain. I understand. I’m sorry.”
“No. Don’t. It’s me.” Her long lashes flutter like there’s something wrong with her. “It’s just I didn’t expect it, and it was behind me. It…uh…it took me back there for a split second.”
Shit. I feel like an asshole for not realizing that.
“You don’t need to explain. I’m not angry. I won’t touch you like that again.”
She nods, her lips curling on one side, forcing herself to appear okay. “But you’re still gonna touch me, right?”
“Just try to stop me.”
