Page 184 of At the Edge of Surrender

Emotion crested, rushing up from where I tried to keep it shored. There was no chance of containing it any longer.

“What did you think you were going to lose?” The question tremored out of me. For the first time in my life, I was asking someone to bare themselves to me.

Because I wanted to feel. I wanted to feel it all.

Everything I’d been missing even when I knew there was no chance it could last.

“You.” Kane wheezed it on a tumultuous breath. “I thought I was going to lose you. You who brought my heart to life when I’d accepted that I was going to live in this eternal nothingness for all my days. You who made me see there is so much more to this existence than just pressing through each day. You who made me see I want to be so much more than what I thought I was destined for.”

Kane reached out his hand that was tattooed with the Ss and the dying rose and set his palm on my cheek.

Energy rushed.

A landslide of want.

“It’s you, Emery. You I’m destined for. You and that little girl that have wrecked me in the best way possible. You who turned my world upside down. And now I’m going to wreck you, Little Warrior. Wreckyouin the best way possible so you know exactly where you belong. So you know you’re meant to be right next to me.”

Desire wracked through my body.

An earthquake.

There was no question he felt it because arrogance ticked up at the corner of his mouth. “That is as long as you’re okay with that?”

I should absolutely tell him no. End this before he fully broke me in the end.

But the words were wisping out, “Wreck me, Kane. I want it. I want to feel you. I want to know what it’s like.”

Vulnerability seeped out with it.

That veritable ferocity pounded in the dense air. “I would never hurt you, Emery. I’ll only show you what it’s like to be treasured. Pleasured in every way you’ve ever imagined.”

A tremor rocked my spine.

God, what I had beenimagining. Every time he touched me, I felt as if I was caught in an avalanche of bliss all while I was left wanting so much more.

So I admitted it.

“I ache for it. I ache for you.”

A dangerous smirk took over his smile. “I’m going to fill that ache. Erase it all while leaving you hungry for more. Because once you have me? You’re going to want it again and again. You’ll never be full of me, just the way I’m never going to be full of you.”

It sounded of a threat.

Of a promise.

Of a forever that he shouldn’t be speaking.

It didn’t matter.

Shivers raced, and my mouth parted as he shifted so he could trace the pad of his thumb over my lower lip.

Back and forth.

Back and forth.

Hypnotizing.

His head cocked to the side. “That sound good to you, Little Warrior? Because I don’t think I can stand not to be inside you for a second longer.”

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