Page 38 of The Devil's Redemption

Before I’m able to speak, he opens his mouth, and I am so incredibly unprepared for what comes out of it.

“I love you, Sasha. I have since the moment I had you pressed up against the door behind the diner that night.”

It’s the perfect combination of words to effectively shut me up. I can’t think straight. I can’t form words. I can barely process what he’s said as I never expected to hear those words from him. I would never deny that Blade has strong feelings for me, but love?

“I…”

Before I can get the rest of the words out, his lips cover mine, and he wiggles his way in between my legs. The peppermint taste of his tongue is everything I remembered. Everything I wished for while I was…

“Blade,” I push him away from me, and I miss the feeling of his lips on mine immediately.

I can’t stand the thought of him touching me, kissing me, when I’m thinking about being in that cellar.

“I’m sorry,” he responds. “I know it’s probably too soon. But, I just—”

“No,” I interrupt him. “No, it’s not that.”

He looks at me, brows furrowed with concern.

“It’s just, I thought about you a lot while… Having your hands on me again, your lips on mine, it’s all I want. It’s everything I need.Youare everything I need.”

I cup his cheek in my hand and hold his stare. I want him to see as deeply inside of me as I just saw in him. He needs to see that my zeal matches his.

“I love you, too.”

As though these eight words, both his and mine, were the key to unlock some sort of cosmic force, I’m able to push thoughts of Jasper and the cellar away just long enough to allow Blade to claim my lips once again.

I know I still have a long journey of healing ahead of me. But for the first time since I woke up, I feel like it’s actually possible.

Chapter Fifteen

When we get backinto the clubhouse, all of my brothers are scattered throughout the main open area. All talking comes to a halt when they see me enter. I nearly forget why Sasha and I turned around and came back as the delicious taste of her simmers on my tongue.

She loves me.

She looked deep within me, spoke those beautiful words, and it’s as though they floated through my body and wrapped themselves tightly around my heart.

“What’s up, Blade? What happened at Sasha’s?”

Breaking me from my trance, I realize Stone is now standing directly in front of me. I look down at Sasha, her hand comfortably in mine, and she nods.

“I took a picture.” As I fish my phone from my pocket, I continue. “The message said, ‘I’m not finished with you yet, princess,’ and they made it look like it was written in blood.”

“That’s what they called me,” Sasha explains softly.

Stone looks from Sasha to my phone screen and then to me. My other brothers are now crowded behind him, looking over his shoulder, trying to catch a glimpse.

“And I found a letter in her bedroom.” I look down at Sasha who stares at me quizzically. I didn’t want to let her read it in the truck. I thought getting her back here safely and being able to comfort her as she took it in would be best. “Jasper has put a hit out on the entire club and everyone connected to us.”

“Fuck,” Stone’s curse joins the rest of my brothers’ murmuring over our current situation.

“But he doesn’t have an army anymore,” Cap speaks up. “There’s no way he’s going to be able to take us all out by himself.”

“Yeah, but Blade told me that a few others also got away that night,” Sasha adds. “I’m sure his club members in Bonneauville weren’t the only psychos he knew.”

Stone and my other brothers look at Sasha as though she spoke out of turn. Before I have a chance to set them straight, Stone speaks again.

“Let’s take this conversation to the chapel,” he commands, knowing Sasha won’t be able to follow us.

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