Page 7 of Blood & Honey
I’m going to have him last.
Now and forever.
I’m going to make him mine.
She betrayed him.All the things he said she did makes her the enemy, and if she’s an enemy of Blood and the club, then she’s dead to me too.He’s here.She’s not.
“We can’t do this.”He pulls away mid-kiss.
The loss of his lips on mine has me wanting to cry.
My skin so fevered.Sensitive.I nearly feel mad.Like I may truly lose my mind I’m so hot for him.“We can do anything we want.Who is going to stop us?”
He shakes his head, and I’m scared that if he walks away, I’ll never have this chance again.What if he never looks at me again the way he is right now?Like he’s hungry for me.Like maybe just maybe he loves me, too.
“Look at me.”I grab his chin and hold his gaze.“Tell me you don’t want this.Tell me you don’t want me.”My heart pounds wildly against my chest.If he turns me down, I’ll never recover.He’s all I want.
All I need.
“It’s wrong.”
“Then let’s do it right.You said there are things you can only tell me if I’m your Ol’ Lady.So make me yours, Blood.Mark me.Claim me.Make me yours in all the ways that matter.”
“Don’t tempt me.”His gaze meets mine and I see an ocean of emotions staring back at me.The longing.The regret.The shame.The lust.But most of all I see hope.And dare I say love.
“What better revenge on my sister for whatever it is she’s done than to be with me?To claim her sister… to make me yours.Take everything from her like she has you.”
His nostrils flare, and I can tell I’m winning this war by the way he looks at me with pure raw hunger.
Like a big bad wolf about to devour his prey.
His teeth skim along the column of my throat.“Fuck, Ashley.My head is all messed up.I can’t think straight.”He takes a long pull from his flask.
“Then stop thinking and just feel.”I press the palm of his hand to my chest.“We don’t have to make sense.But I know and you know we both want this.You need me as badly as I want you.Feel me.Touch me.Show me you love me.”
He pulls away and stares at the ocean.“We should get out of here,” he whispers as the waves crash on the shore.
I should do a lot of things, but leaving this beach before he fucks me isn’t one of them.
“I’ve always loved you,” I confess.“It’s always going to be you for me.”
“Ashley,” he growls my name as though I’ve angered him.“You should aim higher.”
“You know what they say.The sky is the limit.You’re my sky.”
If he only knew, he’s my universe.The reason I breathe.So many times in my life I’ve wanted to disappear and be anyone else, and with one smile from him all the bad ceases to exist.His kisses could spark and end wars.
Begin and end lives.
“You don’t know what you want.You’ve got no idea of life outside of this town.”He shakes his head and I’m scared that he’s never going to look at me as anything more than Shelby’s little sister.
“The only life I want is with you.”
“You don’t know what you’re saying.”
“Who are you to tell me what I do or don’t want?What I feel.What I crave.I want you, Blood.Any way I can have you.Make Shelby pay.”
“Don’t.Don’t cheapen this to being about her.”
