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I want to ask her what stress, but not at the risk of causing her more stress, so instead, I say, “I’m sorry I didn’t take Kordin’s laptop when I had the chance.” I’ve never apologized for it, and even though I’m still not sorry for what I did to Kordin, I feel like shit now that I know why Lex really wanted it.
“Yeah…” Gazing out the window, I think maybe she’s going to tell me about her stress, but she just says, “You have a habit of fucking me.”
She’s not ready. I have a day and a half left to gain her full trust.
Grabbing her chin, I make her look at me. “I’m sorry for my actions that night but I don’t regret anything. The moment I laid eyes on you, Lex—”
A look of pure torture crosses her face and she tries to shake her head. “Don’t.”
“The moment I laid eyes on you, something shifted.”
“Don’t do that.”
“Don’t do what?”
“Don’t… Don’t…”
She can’t even say it. But she doesn’t have to. I will, because it’s fucking done. I already fell in love with Lex. Maybe from the beginning, during that first time seeing her, when she gave me something to work for—no matter what it takes, even over dead bodies. I didn’t know my true purpose then, but I do now. It’s not to save what’s good in this world; it’s to save Lex so I can show her what is good in it.
“I lo—”
“Reece, please.” She twists around on top of me, her knees resting on my armpits as she sits on my lower abdomen. “I never ask for anything, but I am begging you not to use that word. I got my tattoo over my chest becauseI’mbroken, not just my body.Me. I know because I did it myself. I’m incapable of…that, and you deserve…that.”
I try to come up with another way to say what captures how I feel about Lex without scaring her off.
“I’m obsessed with you,” I tell her.
“Obsessed?” She rears back. “Obsession is its own disease.”
Exactly. I’m fuckingsickfor Lex.
“If you’re broken, I’m broken.” I’ll break myself before I’d ever try fixing her. “Lex…I’m obsessed with you.”
Her silver eyes fall to my lips and her breathing speeds up, her collarbone heaving quicker and quicker. “You’re sure?” comes out a whisper that turns my cock rock hard.
I glide her hips backward, raising her up until she’s straddling my tip.
“I’m sure.”
Hands in the hair by my ears, she pulls me to sitting, our faces coming together like magnets.
“I’m so fucking sure,” I say against her lips before guiding her down on my rigid shaft and stuffing her pussy to the brim.
Lex
Iwake up to the sound of wood being split nearby, and immediately open my eyes to find the spot beside me empty. Past Reece’s pillow is the nightstand where soft morning light is reaching through the blinds onto a book that’s been propped up, the cover facing me. Judging by the wolf silhouette behind the woman with the wild hair on the front, it’s a shifter romance. I reach over and grab it. The description is full of wilderness references, and the chapter headers inside feature a picture of a wolf standing in a forest, howling at a full moon.
If Reece was telling the truth last night, then he’s already read this one.
As usual, I flip to the end and read the epilogue.
Setting the book down when I’m done, I don’t get up right away. Instead, I close my eyes again to imagine the happily ever after in my head.
Amazing.
But unrealistic.
Gathering the sheet around me, I pad out to the kitchen, the smell of freshly brewed coffee drawing me over to the no-cup-insert, regular old coffee pot. Coffee isn’t good for my anxiety, but neither is my husband. If I’m stuck with one, Ineedthe other. After pouring myself a mug sans sweetener and dairy to avoid adding more strain on my thyroid, I head outside, passing a bouquet of tall Sunflowers on the countertop. Following last night’s bath, we moved things to the bedroom, so this is my first time seeing any of the other stuff Reece brought in aside from the closet full of black clothes for each of us.
