Page 102 of Beyond the Blue Horizon
He stepped back, making a small opening for me to pass, though I felt his presence cover me from behind as I moved up the walkway.
The man was right there.
A shroud of darkness that consumed me whole.
Arms crossed over my chest, I stepped onto the porch and moved for the door, and I fumbled into my small purse to get the keycard and pressed it to the reader.
The lock buzzed and gave, and my hand went for the handle, though I froze when his nose was suddenly pressed into my hair.
His words were a rough scrape at the shell of my ear.
“I don’t want to break you, Piper. I want to please you. Pleasure you in every way. Put back together whatever’s been broken. Take that pain from your eyes and rewrite myself on you instead.”
Shock pitched from my lungs, and I spun around, my upper back fused to the door that clicked shut.
He stared down at me with those eyes.
A black sea lit in the moonlight.
“I don’t understand it, what it is you’re doing to me.” He dropped his forehead to mine, and the words he expelled were choked. “Feel like I might die if I don’t kiss you. Die if I don’t get to touch you.”
Our chests heaved and the tension bound as we toiled in the hesitation.
“Tell me to walk away from you,” he pleaded.
The front of his jacket was open, and my hands slipped through to fist in his tee shirt. “I don’t know how.”
“Piper.” My name was nothing but a moan, and he warred again, his entire being pressed against mine.
Our mouths hovered an inch apart as our spirits gripped and grasped.
Theo edged back for a beat, and his gaze flashed with desperation. Or maybe I was only seeing what was reflected in my own, because one second later, he dipped in and swept his lips over mine.
His heart pounded against my chest as he pressed in close, and he planted both his hands over my head as he leaned down to deepen the kiss.
His mouth slanted over mine, and our tongues tangled as they met.
A pulsing beat as he licked long and slow, shifting different directions with each ardent pass.
Angling back and forth.
Savoring each mind-bending caress.
Flames flickered low in my belly, desire a warm glow that steadily crawled through my body.
Theo’s left hand slipped down to the side of my neck, a cold clash with the heat, and his nose brushed mine as he let go of a weighty exhale.
“Fuck, Piper,” he rasped. “Kissing you shouldn’t feel like a dream.”
The words were woven through as the man dipped in to nip and pluck at my lips.
“Shouldn’t feel like the best thing I’ve ever felt.”
The fire was stoked as he traced the pad of his thumb along my jaw before he sank back in.
Deeper that time.
His tongue stroking against mine, pulling me into that dream.
