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I mean, she had tried to choke me.
The crack of the chain was lost amongst the adrenaline and arousal. Because in the same moment she had broken the chain as though it were made of cotton, she had pressed her lips to mine.
She fucking kissed me.
Ray didn’t wait for me to kiss her back. Both my body and mind had decided working in tandem was no longer an option. She simply forced my lips apart with her tongue and took control of my mouth.
Ray tasted like cheap alcohol and fire as if the heat of her was going to ignite me. She was passion on long legs, and I swear my body had never responded to Kelly or any of the others the way it did to Ray. Andfuck, that only served to make me fucking angry.
Anger which my body apparently channeled into arousal.
BecauseChrist,her lips were amazing.
Obviously, I had some fucking issues too because instead of pushing her away, I snaked my arms around her back and pulled her to me. I took back the power of the kiss and massaged her tongue with my own, flicked the tip over her teeth, and teased her with what I knew I was capable of.
And when she moaned.
Hell,if I wasn’t sitting down…
Her forearm tightened around the back of my neck, and I clawed at her shoulders when what she was doing dawned on me.
Aw fuck.
She grinned against my lips as she pressed her other hand to my larynx, tightening until everything went black.
It was hot.
Too fucking hot.
Raising an arm, I shielded my face when I went to open my eyes and was met with an assault of light and heat. Then the smell of the smoke, dancing around the inside of my throat and into my lungs yanked me back into the waking world, and I sat up, clutching my head when pops of light danced before my eyes.
For a horrifying moment, panic gripped at my chest when I thought Ray had left me inside the building when she had set it alight. But I was on the street, the rough gravel of the road under my palms as I steadied myself, and the flames licked at the building through the now-shattered windows. The heat was unbearable even from this distance, and my eyes followed the pillar of smoke as it disappeared into the night sky. It wouldn’t be long before the emergency services arrived. That, right there, being one hell of a smoke signal.
Despite the heat, Ray stood much closer to the flames than me.
With a sickening sensation in my stomach, I realized she was probably used to the heat.
I had been faced with my own mortality enough not to need a slap in the face of the existence of an afterlife. There are some things I didn’t want to think about, and where I’d end up after I died, given all the things I had done, was one of them.
When I started coughing, Ray spun on her heel, and smiled wide when she looked at me. She came and sat next to me, yanking on my arm when I tried to move away from her.
“Sit, you need to rest for a moment.”
“Why? Because you choked me until I was unconscious?”
She smirked. “Yeah, exactly.”
We watched the building burn for a minute. Like the most fucked-up date ever. I wanted to do something, but what could I do? Turning, I studied Ray for a moment. She had a look that almost reflected tranquility on her face as she sat, mesmerized by the flames.
“Do you know why they call me Ray?” she asked without looking at me. I shook my head but didn’t respond. When I didn’t say anything, she turned to me, positively beaming. “Because I brighten your night,” she said with a dramatic flail of her wrist toward the flame.
What.
The.
Fuck?
“Have you been waiting for me to ask so you could tell your little lame joke?”
