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“Have at it? Are you welcoming more than my kiss, Little Dove?” I gritted my teeth, ignored the fact that I had indeed kissed him back, and instead let my anger fuel my words.
“Tell me what the fuck is going on!”
“Fine, you want to know? Then here it is. I never should have walked away from you that night. I should have picked you up and put you in the fucking van and stole you away right there and then. But I didn’t. I fucked up and as a result of that, you got hurt. So, I made myself a promise, Evie…” He said this last part while moving closer to me, making me back up to try and maintain my distance from him. Something that created this intensity to grow between us.
“…I promised myself that I would do everything and anything in my power to stop that from happening ever again. I would not allow anyone to hurt you or try and take you from me,” he said like some dark vow.
“Take me from you?” I asked this time in a guarded tone.
“You want to take this slow…? You want to let caution take the lead…? Then fine, but don’t you dare try and tell me that this between us is nothing. That you don’t feel it too,” he pushed, backing me into both the proverbial corner as well as an actual one, making me stammer,
“I…I…”
“You know as well as I do that there is a connection…” He finally reached me just as my back hit the wall of windows. Then he raised his fingertip to my cheek and traced the line of my lips.
“This burning need and desire only grows in its intensity,” he hummed, making me swallow hard at what both his words and the deep husk in which he said them did to me.
“Well, I think we have established that I think you’re hot,” I replied to try and ease the tension, something his smile told me I had managed to accomplish.
“I’m pleased you think so. However, simple attraction is not what I mean,” he replied in that smooth, knowing tone of his.
“Then what do you mean?” I dared to ask.
“I want you. I have wanted you like no other. But not just your body…” At this he paused and started running the back of his crooked finger down my neck and over the center of my chest.
“I want it all, everything you have to give. But most of all…” I held my breath at this, waiting for what I knew would be the words that could impact me the most and… he didn’t disappoint.
“I want your heart.” I sucked in a startled breath at this, barely believing this moment was even happening.
“But… but you don’t even know me,” I told him in a small, unsure voice, one that caused a small smile to play at the corners of his lips.
“I know enough,” he told me, and just because my own mind and heart needed reminding, I said,
“Because you stalked me.”
“Yes, I stalked you,” he admitted shamelessly.
“You know how messed up that is, right?” He simply shrugged at this, like he just didn’t fucking care that it was.
“I have never lived a conventional life, Evie, so it stands to reason that when I fall in love, this too would be unconventional.”
Again, the sound of that word was filled with enough power to snatch my breath from me, something he didn’t miss. He even tilted his head a little, as if trying to take in my scent and making me question for what felt like the millionth time…
Who the hell was this guy?
“Fall in love… Ryker, you don’t even…” At this he hushed me by placing two fingers over my lips.
“I know everything I need to, to know that I want to know more,” he said with a grin, making me ask,
“Why are you smiling?”
“Why wouldn’t I, when I know that I will have more than a lifetime to learn it all?” I swallowed hard at that, shocked by the easy way he wanted to commit himself to our forever.
“But I know nothing about you!” I argued back, because it was far too true.
“Then you, too, will also have a lifetime to learn it all,” was his easy answer to this, like that was all it took to get me to agree.
“And if I don’t like what I learn, what then?” I tested, and he actually seemed to take pause at this, as if suddenly pained by the idea. Then he eased my fears slightly by telling me,
