Page 186 of Beyond the Blue Horizon
And I could feel his gaze boring down on Raven.
Raven must have felt the force of his stare, because she shifted to face him as she swiveled her hips to the beat, her face full of the seductive smile she always wore for him, her thin sweater wrapped around her big baby belly.
“Otto, you get that cute butt over here and dance with your woman,” she called. She turned around and wagged her ass at him as she peeped at him from over her shoulder.
“Little tease,” he muttered with a grin under his breath. “That sweet fuckin’ heart wrapped up in a delicious package. Not gonna be the fool who rejects it. Not any longer.”
He drained his beer and set it on the counter. “Maybe it’s time you asked yourself exactly what it is you think you’re achieving by rejecting that gift.”
The second he said it, Piper peeked at me.
Arctic eyes warmer than they’d ever been. Her stunning face flushed and her cheeks pinked. Those lips tipping up at the sides.
Like that was what she wanted to be.
A gift.
Like all the secrets between us didn’t matter. Like my sins didn’t count. Like maybe she’d let me hold the fear of whatever she was running from.
“That’s what I thought,” Otto gruffed as he reached over from the side and smacked me across the chest before he wentsauntering around the couch to get to Raven. “I’m coming for you, my Moonflower.”
He grabbed her and slipped an arm around to her lower back. With his other hand, he took hers and started flinging her around the way he always did.
The two each other’s perfect match.
Kane and River popped up to join the riot, these guys who were hard and dangerous as fuck going soft when it came to their women.
Standing there, I knew that Otto was all fucking wrong. What I did was unforgivable.
Reprehensible.
And it still didn’t seem to matter as I drained my beer and set the glass next to Otto’s and went ambling out into the fray.
Scooping Finn up before I slid my free arm around Piper’s waist.
She froze for a beat as I pulled her close. Her eyes widened, whirling with a thousand questions before she gave, just the same way as I was apparently trying to do.
Her hand slid up to lock at the nape of my neck while the other went to her son’s back as we began to move.
Finn held between us as I gazed down at his mom’s perfect face.
This woman I shouldn’t want.
The one who’d weaved her way through every crack that she had made.
This woman I could feel like thunder through my veins.
And I dropped my nose to hers as I whispered, “I told you I had nothing left to give, so why do I want to give you everything?”
THIRTY-SEVEN
THEO
It wasclose to ten as I followed Piper’s Volvo down the long, winding drive that led to The Sanctuary.
The sky was clear, a billion stars scattered over the canopy stretched overhead.
The moon was close to full, and it cast a silvered glow over the vast expanse of winter white.
