Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 154037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 770(@200wpm)___ 616(@250wpm)___ 513(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 154037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 770(@200wpm)___ 616(@250wpm)___ 513(@300wpm)
“And what am I doin’ to you, darlin’?” I played it innocent, a tease, loving the lightness that flitted between us.
“You know exactly what…making me all squirmy and needy.” She whispered the last like it was a secret.
“Looks like you caught me. That was the whole plan.” I leaned in close, and that time, I licked the bit of chocolate remaining from her lip, voice lowering to a rasp. “Only thing I want is you squirming and needy.”
Raven was the one who reached over and dug into the cake that time, basically coating her fingers in it rather than picking up a piece. She pressed all four fingers into my mouth, and I sucked around them, licking them clean, making her shake.
I kept feeding her little pieces, watching her the whole time, loving that she was mine. I dragged messy fingers down her neck, licked that up, too, didn’t mind one bit that I was smearing chocolate all over my white tee that she wore, my hands making imprints all over her.
She whimpered, and it was clear she was no longer interested in eating as she pressed her chest toward my face. Over the shirt, I pulled one of those diamond tipped nipples into my mouth, giving the bud a tiny nip of my teeth.
Raven yelped then giggled as she curled her arms around my head, and I was pulling her from the counter and into my arms and swinging her around.
Letting this joy overflow us. A rising tide powerful enough to sweep us away. Our feet unsteady with the amount of happiness that rushed.
I reached over and grabbed her phone from her purse where she’d left it on the counter earlier, and with her still in my arms, I thumbed into her music app. Put it on a slow song so I could dance with her the way I’d always wanted to.
Completely wrapped up and wholly given.
Strains of the soft melody filled the room, and I carefully set Raven on her feet and tucked her against me, and she breathed out a tremulous sigh and gazed up at me.
Understanding in those eyes. The truth that it really had always been her.
“You don’t have to be afraid of loving me,” she murmured.
Wistfulness filled the shake of my head. “Since there is a very real chance that your brother is going to kill me when he finds out, there’s probably going to be a little pain.”
I tried to keep it light.
A tease.
But the severity of it rang around us.
She was forbidden, and I’d taken the one thing I was never supposed to have.
“He won’t.”
We swayed, and my thumb traced the freckle on the edge of her lip. “He might, but I promise you, any second I get to spend with you is worth it.”
“He doesn’t need to know. What is between us is between us.”
Both of us knew that was impossible. There was no way we could keep this under wraps for long. No way to conceal the fire that burned between us.
Air puffed out of my nose. “I’ll figure out a way to tell him. Just gonna need some time, and I need to be the one to do it.”
Time to figure out what the hell I was doing. Time to decide if I was going to continue on this suicide mission. Chasing down death as I chased down vengeance.
I was beginning to wonder if that was worth it. If it was going to change anything inside me once it was done.
Most of all, I needed the time to figure out who was after Raven.
Then I’d face what I’d done, and I’d take any penalty that was coming my way.
She was worth it.
She was worth it.
“I will never be ashamed or regret loving you.” She said it simply. Like nothing could touch us.
Nah, I had no regrets, but there was plenty of shame.
“No, Moonflower, there never could be any regretting you,” I murmured, swaying her soft.
Nose pressed into her hair and my arms curled tight around her body.
It didn’t take long for the air to change.
To come alive.
A charge that sparked in the room.
The connection that pulled taut between us a live wire.
Greed twisted my guts, the need to get lost in her greater than any need I’d ever felt.
She sensed it, too, and a sensual exhalation escaped her lips.
I leaned down and fitted my mouth against hers, drinking that provocative sound down, sucking it into the well of my lungs.
Filling myself with the taste of her.
Chocolate and temptation. Goodness and light.
My hands began roaming, gliding along her gorgeous curves, taking handfuls as I went. The second my fingers hit the hem of my shirt she wore, I peeled it over her head and tossed it to the floor.
The break in our connection gave me a second to take her in.