Page 210 of Beyond the Blue Horizon
I shifted her hand to place her palm over the ravaging that thundered at my chest. “One look at you, and my cold, dead heart began to beat. In a way it’d never done. You lifted thefallen. Gave me air when I had no breath. Sparked a brand-new life that I wasn’t supposed to be given.”
I pressed her hand tighter over my heart. “And that life? It belongs to you, Piper. To you and that little boy.”
Shock rasped out of her, and I dipped in to suck it down, drawing everything that she was down into my soul as my mouth crushed against hers in a desperate kiss.
I picked her up off her feet, and she wrapped her legs around my waist.
Those delicate arms locked around my neck as one of mine looped around her lower back.
My other hand fisted in her hair as my mouth devoured hers while I carried her through the door and into my house.
And I knew, there was no going back.
FORTY-TWO
PIPER
There wereno lies I could tell to stop this.
I didn’t even want to try.
Because I was standing at the horizon.
The chance at a new life swirling all around me.
It was no longer a tease but a fierce, unrelenting hope that I found in the safety of Theo Mallin’s arms.
Fire licked through my veins and joy pulsed in my spirit as he blindly turned the knob on the interior door of the garage and kicked open the door.
He carried me into the warmth of his cabin.
He had me hoisted up high, hovering a few inches above him, his head tilted back and his greedy kiss unending as he fisted a hand in my hair, angling me how he wanted me as he pillaged and plundered my mouth.
Tongue hot against mine. Lips both desperate and sweet.
His breaths raked between the nips and pulls as he walked with me in his arms down a hall.
“Theo,” I muttered into the frenzy, and I rubbed myself against the hard, rigid planes of his abdomen and chest.
I wanted to touch him everywhere at the same time. The same way as I wanted him to touch me.
Frantic, I pulled back enough to wind myself out of my jacket and toss it to the floor, then my fingers sank right back into the nape of his neck as I poured myself into him.
A long groan rolled up his throat. “Piper. Can’t believe it’s come to this.”
Lightheadedness swept through me, like I might be floating, though I didn’t think I’d ever felt more grounded than this.
The questions squashed. The fear obliterated.
“Nothing has ever felt so right,” I murmured at his lips.
He kept kissing me wild as the hall opened to a massive great room.
I pulled away to take in his home.
The ceiling was pitched and two stories high. The beams made of rustic woods and everything accented in raw stone. So different than the worn black leathers of the man, but somehow they were fitting.
Like he’d etched himself into this place.
