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Chapter Sixteen
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Three seconds.
It was all he gave me before bending his head deeper, then taking my lips again.
Three seconds…to decide.
For both of us.
Restraint, brakes, and an easy but aching coast toward goodbye—or full speed, turbo jets, and a hell of a fireball before the ending credits of this thing?
Fireballs always made the credits so pretty.
At least it was what I told myself, as I let him crash all the way down on me. A conviction I let consume me, exactly as his taste and scent and heat did. A thought that even brought weird comfort, as he hitched my thighs around his waist then turned, carrying me toward the bed.
He needed this.
I was helping him.
Diverting his rage toward something that wouldn’t get him killed—though it was sure as hell going to feel like self-impalement to walk away from him now.
But the skewering would be worth it. The pain, so damn sweet.
Who the fuck was I kidding? I wasn’t made for sweet. And this time, the pain was going to suck ass—a punishment I’d take like a big girl, once the time came.
Now was not that time.
Right now, slammed to my back then crushed beneath his body, it was only time to welcome the good pain. The best kind.
The grind of his teeth against mine, as he plunged his mouth back down. The bite of his cargo pants zipper as he made room for himself between my thighs, parting them with his own. The rough slide of his hands up my thighs then my waist, pushing up my shirt, palming my bare skin with his passion-driven hands.
Then impaling me all by himself…with the force of his stare. Cobalt layered with flint, daggering me, driving every beat of my heart before slicing straight to my throbbing core. Harsh, hot, ruthless. Gleaming with all the angry edges of his own pain. The control he needed to feel. The power he needed to give. The passion he needed to share.
The escape he needed to take.
I got it.
I saw it.
I showed him so.
I reached up, skating both hands along his jaw then up higher, until I’d twined the dark luxury of his hair around my fingers. Twisted in more as I wrapped my legs tighter around him, a husky hiss escaping as his bulge slotted against my crotch. He made a sound too, a mix of breath and sound I couldn’t exactly define, but was all the more turned-on for. So many things about this man kept surprising me…I gasped again, amazed by the magnitude of it all. While I saw so much about the landscape of who he was, the nuances of that world still delighted me at every new step.
And every shared breath…
And every twine of heartbeats…
And every degree of lust…
God, yes. Especially that.
“Lucina…”
“Hmmm?” It sounded as dreamy as I felt. Despite how every pore of my skin felt opened and electrified at once—maybe because of that—my mind already spun, blissful and wild, somewhere between truth and fantasy. His new kiss intensified the sensation. God, how good he felt. His lips molded mine, commanding every degree of my desire. His tongue, wet and fierce, drowned me in more perfect, shivering, shaking need.
“Creator’s mercy, you are beautiful.”
