Page 99 of The Stone Initiation
My stomach flipped. This was dangerous ground. I should stop him, say something, but there was a liquid heat in my belly that felt right. I didn’t want to lose that feeling, didn’t want to lose this side of him.
“One second.”
I ducked back into my room, hit speaker, and set the phone on the dresser, but I didn’t step away from the window. Instead, I stood in full view and peeled off my pj’s. Could he see me? Was he watching. The pulse in my throat thudded hard and fast.
He sucked in a breath. “Cam…” His tone was raw torment. “This is bad…”
I stopped undressing. “It is?” I kept my voice light and innocent. “Should I stop?”
“Don’t stop, dammit,” he growled.
That’s what I thought. I peeled off my sleep tee and was rewarded with another low, agonized groan.
“Fuck…you’re perfect.”
I stepped out of my shorts next, leaving me naked except for my underwear. “I really hope you’re the only one getting an eyeful here?”
He made a soft sound, part groan, part laugh. “Put on the slip.”
The material practically poured itself over me, caressing my skin in a way that heightened my senses and intensified the liquid heat low in my belly.
“It’s perfect. You’re perfect.”
I ran my hands over the fabric that came just past my ass. If I took off my panties and bent over, I’d be on display and for a moment I was tempted to do just that. But we were already pushing boundaries here.
“You’re beautiful, Cameron.” He sounded almost sad. “So very beautiful.”
Beautiful? I hadn’t been called beautiful before. My body was too muscular, too tall for most human male tastes. Even Levi, a halfblood like me, had only ever called me sexy, and that was only during sex. But then, if he had called me beautiful, I probably would have taken it with a pinch of salt, but when Serath said it, thewayhe said it…I had no doubt that he meant it.
“I have to go,” he said softly.
“What?” I snatched up the phone, flipped the speaker mode off and pressed it to my ear. “We went too far, didn’t we?”
“No, Cam. It’s fine. I just. I wanted to have this to take with me.”
My scalp prickled. “Serath, what’s going on?”
“I’ve got to leave on a mission. Tonight. And this…You in that slip of a thing, is the perfect image to take with me.”
“But, where are you going?” Fear dug its claws into my lungs. “It’s dangerous, isn’t it?”
He chuckled soft and low, making the hairs on my body quiver with need even when my mind was screaming that something was wrong here.
“Serath, please, tell me the truth. Is there a chance you won’t come back?”
“Cameron, in our world, there’salwaysa chance that we won’t come back.”
Like Romi had never come back. “No. I’m not having it.”
“What?”
“You’ll come back. You’ll come back because if you don’t then I’ll come looking for you and probably get myself killed, so you’ll come back to make sure I stay here. Safe. Do you understand me?” My chest heaved and I breathed through my nose to calm myself against the wave of panic that the thought of losing him evoked.
He was silent for the longest time, and I was beginning to think the line had gone dead when he finally replied.
“I’ll come back, Cameron. No matter what it takes.”
“Serath, we need to move out,” a male voice said from behind him.
