Page 138 of Tempt Me (Dark Odyssey 4)

His mouth on mine speaks to me without words that we were so much more than what I thought we were, and I’m pulled into the fantasy of those two people who met at the coffee house.

He kisses away my fears and nightmares. All of it goes, including my grief. It’s just like magic. Soothing, to pacify the pain. The more he touches me, the more it fades, and soon it’s gone completely from my mind.

I feel his touch and his lips, and that is all that exists in my world. Him.

I’m swept away as the kiss intensifies, becoming brazen. The kind that holds nothing back. It fills me with that wild need for him again. Wild need mixed with that transcendental desire for each other. We tear at each other’s clothes until we’re both naked, his lips barely leaving mine.

When passion takes us, it sets my soul on fire and my body comes alive with the energy that pulses from it.

Each touch, each kiss, each whisper of desire sings through my soul and seals me to him.

When his ruthless cock plunges into me, it strips away everything but my need for him, possessing me so I know he’s taking the last things I have left. Heart and soul.

I already gave him my body, and as I give it to him again, I hope he knows what he means to me. I tried so hard not to fall for him, and I couldn’t stop. Now that I’m so wounded, I need his touch to make me whole. To fix me.

Fix me….

The thought brings the image of that girl who was locked away and pushes through the darkness. My dark knight is light in the darkness, so dark that darkness fears him. He cracks away the shadows surrounding me and her.

And then it happens. Something light drifts in. At first it drifts, then it flows. It’s hope, hope that I grab by the reins and allow to take me away from the shadows the monsters created.

We move together as one molded by passion’s call to make love.

Then, together, we surrender, and I feel the culmination of ultimate pleasure claim me and heal me. A million glowing stars swirl through me all at once, and love flows through me like liquid fire.

Love I never expected to feel with anyone. Love I never dreamt of feeling with anyone.

I could only feel like this with him. I could only give myself to him.

Only he could break down the barriers I set up, because only he could see how broken I was.

As our breathing stills, he holds me, and I feel loved. I feel it all around me, and I know he feels it too.

He looks at me with it but dips his head, almost averting my gaze.

“Please… look at me,” I plead.

He does, and his eyes search mine. “I….” He doesn’t finish. He doesn’t need to. I felt the rest of the words.

I felt the affection in my heart, and I understand why he can’t finish.

But I’ll absorb the warmth he gives me as he holds me.

For just a little longer, I stay in the fantasy and imagine us as those people.

I know we aren’t, and I know I have to leave this world we created entirely.

I’ll hold on for as long as I can though. I don’t want to leave just yet.

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Vincent

The gentle breeze lifts the ends of her hair.

The sunlight beaming down on her face makes her look younger than she is. I keep seeing her as a kid in that picture. That picture was taken a year before all the evil was done to her.

I look at her and wonder how anyone could hurt her.

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