Page 61 of Sin With Me

“It’s true, then. Father John and my mother had ason.”

I didn’t count the minutes that we stood in silence as it was a much-needed silence. There was no longer a need to bring up the fact that Father John could be her father. I couldn’t even imagine how lost Kate must have been feeling at the moment. She’d came to her mother’s hometown which she didn’t know had her family roots, and then found out that her mother had been involved with a priest, and had to run away from a cartel. The irony was definitely not lost on me; if history did in fact repeat itself, then it had a strange sense of humor.

And if history took it too far, I was afraid that Kate could end up on the run from Mateo Cortez or his son, just the way her motherhad.

“Kate? Are you all right?”

“For the first time in my life, I don’t think Iam.”

She turned around and rammed into me with full force, throwing her arms around me. I held her against me, smoothing my hand up and down herback.

“Shh, it’s okay. You’re still the same wonderful Kate that Iknow.”

But she shook her head and pulled her nose upward over my shirt. I knew I was looking down at her, right into her eyes, but I could barely see her; yet there she was, even in the darkness, still the most beautiful creature I’d evermet.

“I just feel like my entire life has been a lie, you know. Everything I’ve been told is one biglie.”

“Not everything,” I lied. The only true fact was that I was a goodliar.

Something crashed above us. Kate grabbed me around my waist and dug her fingers into my ribs. My arms instinctively flew around her, shielding her. Dust fell through between the wooden boards, disturbing the streams of faint light squeezing between the slits.

One of the boards leaning against the wall must have fallen over. Its crash echoed through the chapel, ringing in my ears until there was nothing but silence.

Silence andus.

And for the first time in a long time I felt like a man again. I felt like it was my duty to protect her. There was a need inside of me to make sure that nothing ever happened to this woman. And then there was another need — a more physical one. I could feel her breasts rising and falling as she clung to my body. The heat of her skin, the smell of her breath, the vibration of her nerves camouflaged as small trembles in her thighs — they all aroused me. Everything about her arousedme.

“Kate, you should stay away fromme.”

“What if I don’t wantto?”

Her voice, full of desire and need, was singing the exact song my dick wanted tohear.

“Kate, I’m warningyou.”

“Why?”

She tightened her grip around me, her curves molding against my chest, her hips pushing forward until I could feel my rock-solid dick press into her soft triangle. It was painful and beautiful at the sametime.

“That’swhy.”

I seized her mouth with mine and finally discovered what she tastedlike.

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