Page 72 of Absolution

There’s no doubt in my mind that Christian will be back, and I’m not gonna let him get away. He will confess!

Christian

She let me in.

I sit in my car. The engine is off. My body is on fire.

She let me in. She trusted me. She had missed me. She had fucking missed me! I can’t believe she let me in and let me spend time with Cecilia. I can’t understand how she can be so generous after all I’ve done to her.

I told her the whole uncomfortable truth, concentrated into two words only. You are. Kerry won’t like it one fucking bit, but the moment I laid my eyes on her, she was doomed.

The moment she chose to speak to Salvatore for the first time, she doomed herself to death.

The moment she let me drive her home that first night, she doomed herself to be mine.

The one, single time, we fucked, when we made Cecilia, was the night that changed my whole existence. Women to me had been for one thing only up until then. I’ve had lovers, short-time girlfriends, and more one-night stands than I can count, but I’ve never felt such a rush of power over her submission to me. I’ve never felt such a deep need to be with someone, and to keep her as mine, forever.

Kerry Jackson will be mine again, and soon, because I can’t stay away. I won’t stay away. I need to have her warm little body under me again. Flashes of the reddened, slightly mottled skin on her butt, her fearful eyes as I tied her up, make me rock hard in a second.

Do I woo her, or do I just take her?

I have no fucking idea how to court someone. Fuck that. I know she needs me just as much as I need her, and this time she’s not going anywhere. No Chicago. No fucking Canada. She stays.

I have half a mind to storm back inside and push her up against the wall, ripping the clothes off her body. I have waited so long. Too long.

She’s mine. Finally.

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