Page 46 of Tainted Gifts
Her lips slide over my bare chest as she snuggles in closer. Absentmindedly, she kisses me the way a lover would when barely roused in their sleep. It feels right - us. She feels it too. She knows what we have is special.
I may not be her counter, but I'm sure as hell the one she wants, whether she admits it or not.
I smile every time her beautiful mind tells me she loves me. I almost ache when her fantasies turn less innocent as she envisions me with her the way only I should be.
Her scandalous mind finds a dream that makes her smile and blush even in her sleep. It'd be adorable if it wasn't absolutely killing me to have to watch it play out like a movie.
I see myself falling between her legs, my body connecting with hers as the muscles inside her tighten around me. It's impossible not to feel the effects of her erotic dream, and then it hurts more when she actually slips her leg in between mine, her hand sliding up my chest as she subconsciously seduces me.
I look around, trying to see if anyone is looking. Simone is passed out, her back turned to us as she sleeps on the adjacent bunk. Kellan is still up front with my sister, and all the kids are sleeping peacefully.
I turn back just as her lips graze my chest, her sexy little blood bringers barely out of hiding as her dirty mind goes to work. Fucking shit. Her mind is incredible.
I feel like a pervert peeping in the fantasies she's having about me.
She wants my blood, craves it. Even as she dreams, I can see her desire to taste me. I'd gladly give it to her for the rest of eternity. All she has to do is wake up and see that. I'm hers. There will never be anyone for me after falling in love with her.
In a moment of pure pathetic weakness, I let my lips find hers, gently kissing her so as not to disturb her peaceful sleep. She smiles, her dream only getting dirtier as she nestles in tighter to me.
I'm going to explode if her mind doesn't calm down. The things she wants to do with me... fuck.
My body heats up, reacting to her torrid visions, but I force it to cool down. I want nothing more than to kiss her again, make that fucking dream come true, but I refrain. She'll be mine again. There's no definitive proof that Kellan's her counter, but if he's emergent hybrid, then he's definitely strong enough to be in the running.
I had hoped she'd never have a counter, as selfish as that is. She's so strong - what little bit she's been able to use her gifts - so I hoped no one would be strong enough to make her destiny.
That fucking arrogant ass has to be emergent hybrid too though. I wish more now than ever I had given the order to kill on sight. That makes me a terrible leader, but that's how much I love her. I can't lose her. Not to him. Not to anyone.
Her small, barely-there bikini has been driving me crazy for longer than I care to admit. She's the only one who didn't bother to change. As her leg draws up to rest over my hip, I see the curve of ass, a taunting perfection she doesn't know she's using against me right now.
As terribly wrong and perverse as it might be, I run my hand over it, pulling her center tighter to mine as her wild dreams go deeper, making me harder. I almost pray she wakes up and feels how fully erect I am right now. Maybe she wouldn't be able to deny me any longer, and then I could have her back.
Her hybrid heat is intoxicating, making me swell with more desire as she willingly folds to me. The scenery in her dream changes, making me hotter as she chooses a colder climate for our ravenous adventure.
The steamy room turns into a meadow covered in snow. Nature's white blanket melts around our bodies as her hybrid heat reaches a new, sexy height. My name falls through her lips both in the dream and in reality, making me hurt even more to be inside of her.
She's torturing me right now without even meaning to. I've watched all sorts of warm and fuzzy dreams of hers since we left the bunker where we found the children. The monster RV we're in is a beast, but it's not big enough for me to have any privacy, meaning I need to keep my composure right now despite the vixen in my arms.
The open layout has a small kitchen area in view and a tiny bathroom off to the side with a ridiculously small shower stall. Though it's very wide, the aisle is narrow, offering room for the beds - ten bunk-beds on each side.
We've got twenty children with us, making me feel all the more shady as I peer into my hybrid's dreams. But I can't help it. I can tune out the rest of the world anytime I want to, but I've never been able to tune out Aria.
She doesn't know I can tune anyone out, and she'd kick my ass if she did because she'd never believe she's the only one I can't stop hearing. Her thoughts are always audible when she's in view, and even sometimes when she's not... as long as no one else is distracting me.
She'd never believe that though, and quite frankly, it's crazy. She's always been an anomaly to me though.
My name falls through her lips again, though this time it's only in the dream. My eyes shut as I revel in the dream she's having as though it's my own. The images she sees are so clear to me.
All I want to do is make her dreams come true. I feel her as if I'm really inside her, giving her all the salaciously delicious things she's begging for. I feel her tightening around me as I surge in, giving her my blood in her mouth.
My eyes pop open as I try to think of something else. This is too fucking painful to endure much longer without actually having her in that way.
Does she not know I would do anything to have her back? Does she not see how much she still loves me? Why is she so desperate to have a counter?
I know she saw what Araya and Hale had, and she wants that, but I could give her that. I may not be capable of being her counter, but I'm capable of loving her more than anyone else. There's nothing I wouldn't do for her.
Melania's voice comes to my mind, interrupting my self-destructing pity party. 'Kellan is about to come back there.'
My sister has gotten really good at projecting her thoughts to me when she knows I'm intentionally blocking her out. Now I've got to find a way to cover up this ungodly erection Aria's mind has left me with.
