Page 119 of A Love Like Venom

Because as I stare in her extraordinary honey brown eyes, eyes that I can easily lose myself in, I realize something.

And it is like a light has finally turned on inside this head of mine. Where before everything was muddled and blurry I can now see with such clarity.

This feeling, this overwhelmingly full yet indescribable feeling is something that I have never felt before.

With an innocent touch she sets fire to my skin, burning everything in its path. With one look as simple as it may be lights up everything within me. She makes me feel whole. She makes me feel like I can be someone good, that I am someone who is good.

And her voice, a beautiful gentle sound that I never want to stop hearing. Her voice is music and her laughter is my favorite song.

But these words . . .

These three words that come from her pink luscious lips have just sung my favorite verse.

I love you.

Alice Hall loves me.

As I stare down at her she has the most gorgeous smile on her face. It’s unlike any smile she has given me before. It’s raw. It’s brilliant. It’s breathtaking.

She’s breathtaking.

And she loves me.

This beautiful strong intelligent courageous woman loves me.

And I can no longer keep it to myself, the secret that I have buried. The feelings that I have forced down to never surface. Feelings that I have always had for her but was always too afraid to do a damn thing about it.

I’m not afraid anymore.

I’m not scared to take a risk.

With her I’m all in.

I’m so in that I can’t get out even if I wanted to.

She has me. All of me.

She always has. She’s the only person who ever has had all of me.

There is no other person on this Earth who could make me feel an ounce of what she does.

Taking her face in my hands I hold her in a soft caress. She stares up at me with only love shinning in her eyes. I swear as I look down at her mine are showing how much I love her, too.

“I love you, Alice Hall. With everything in me, with all that I am, I love you,” I fiercely tell her.

Then I slam my lips down on hers.

Where as before our kiss, our first glorious kiss was soft and slow this one is anything but.

In this kiss I take control. As I force her mouth open, my tongue demanding entry she obliges giving me everything that I want. She matches my hunger. We fuel each other’s desires all in this one passionate heated kiss.

As we continue to devour one another I press her small yet curvy body closer to mine. My hands drift all over her. Moaning in her mouth I then grab a hold of her pert ass and give it a squeeze. She moans in response and I swallow her cries.

Hearing her desire for me turns me on more than it should. Fuck, it has me harder than I have ever been in my life.

And I want nothing more than to strip the both of us bare, feel her naked skin against my own and make her mine.

But I won’t.

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