Page 118 of Beyond the Temptation: Vol 2

“Yes. Oh Séamus, yes!” A single tear spilled and trailed over her cheek.

I caught it with my lips before I kissed her in the middle of the moonlit path. When we broke apart, she rested a hand on my chest—right over the thud of my dark heart.

For a moment, I lost myself in the golden depths of her gaze.

“Séamus?” she whispered.

“Yes?” I ran my thumb over the still damp track of her tear.

“Look at me,” she pleaded.

I did.

“I love you,” she murmured, and my chest clenched, and wild things were set free within it.

I framed her beautiful face in my palms. “Never in all my years would I have thought I would say this to another being, but I love you too.”

We had so much to discuss and so much she needed to know. But that could wait a little bit. For now, all that mattered was capturing her lips with mine and getting home as soon as possible.

She had tamed the beast, and she had no idea.

The End… For Now

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