Page 141 of Under an Endless Moon

I’d pretty much spat in the face of every oath I’d ever made, and the greatest one of them was currently in my arms.

“And how could that ever make you wrong for me?” she asked.

“You already know the answer to that, Raven. You know why we can’t do this.”

She wiggled in my arms, her bare ass brushing my dick that still stood at half-mast.

“Based on what just happened between us, I’m pretty sure we can.”

A groan got free.

When I got to the top of the landing, I shifted so I could turn the knob and edged open the door, then I carried her across the great room and up into my bedroom. I strode straight for the shower in the en suite bathroom, and I balanced her in one arm as I reached in and turned the faucet to high.

While it heated, I turned and sat her on the counter. I stepped back from her, though I still was standing between her thighs.

Her pussy was right there, still emitting heat.

My cock jolted, hungry to just give in and fully take her over.

I brushed back the matted hair from her face before I set my palm on her cheek, staring down at the beauty that was this girl.

The goodness.

The kindness.

The belief.

My moonflower that had forever shined in the night.

I was terrified that I might be the one to stamp it out.

“I need to know how you’re feeling. If I pushed you too far?”

Understanding dawned on her features, and her hand came up to cover mine as she leaned deeper into my touch. “No, Otto. I wasn’t afraid. I know you would never hurt me. Know that you nevercouldhurt me. I wanted it. Iwantit. I want to feel you in every way.”

“Afraid I can’t give you what you’re looking for, Raven. Can’t give you what I see playing in your eyes.”

I couldn’t give her forever, and that’s the one thing she deserved. And if I took any more of her? I was never going to want to let her go.

She’d get so far under my skin there would be no way to get her out, not that she hadn’t been there all along. Winding and weaving into me.

Body, spirit, and soul.

Disbelief shot from her mouth, and her eyes pinched at the corners as she lifted her chin. “Because you don’t want to, Otto? Because you really don’t see me the way I see you? Or because you’re the one who’s afraid?”

Fuck.

She just laid it out.

I took her chin between my thumb and index finger and angled in close. “Because I’m no good, Raven. Because you don’t know who I really am. Because you’d be disgusted if you knew.”

Because I’d failed my sister, and I’d be damned if I failed her, too.

“Because yes, Raven, I’mterrifiedof hurting you.”

Surprised dread rippled through her features, and that sexpot mouth dropped open a fraction as her attention flicked all over my face. I knew she was searching around for something to say, for ananswer, for a rebuttal, so I cut her off before we could let this spiral any farther than it already had.

“Now let’s get you in the shower and clean you up, then I’m going to take you to Moonflower and I’m gonna stand outside and watch over you the way I was meant to do, and we’re going to forget what happened between us last night and this morning.”

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