Page 52 of Blind Devotion
“Exactly.” I cradled her cheek with one hand. “This isn’t like you.”
“So now you know me?”
“I know you’re hurting. Tell me why?”
“You don’t get everything you want.”
Her fists pummeled against my chest with weak hits. Her eyes glistened through the eye shield. Tears leaked out, pooling at the edge of the silicone. I pried the patch up and let the flood wash down her cheeks.
“I have you.”
Her body shook against mine. “You don’t mean that.”
I wiped away the wet trails on her cheeks, her skin soft and luscious.
“I do. You’re safe.”
“Am I? Or is it just until the next time your knife is at my throat?”
She’d never been more beautiful than she was now, flushed with anger, almost combusting with it. Bitable parted pink lips just begging for me to take them. I thumbed her bottom lip down. Her breath hitched, and when I let go, her lip bounced back in place. I had always avoided kissing before. Never seen the appeal, not if it meant possible pain on contact.
“There’s no knife. Now is all that matters.”
“What about if now isn’t good enough?”
“It can be. That’s up to you.” My forehead pressed to hers. That green, no matter how scarred or surrounded by redness, sucked me in. “I’ve got you, Tessa. I swear. Nothing is taking you away from me but me. You can be certain of that.”
“Cryptic shit like that isn’t helping.”
I chuckled.
“So bitter.” I kissed the wetness below her right eye. “So resentful.” My lips switched to the other side, enjoying the taste of her, aching for more. “So full of ire. Isn’t talking what you women like best? Getting things off your chest? Chatting until all those around you bleed from their ears?”
“Wow, you’re really helping me to open up,” she mocked with a breathlessness that had me pressing into her.
Her breath stuttered as my cock, at half-mast, made contact with her stomach.
“Say the word,” I whispered in her ear, “I’d love nothing more than to spread you wide.”
“Adrien,” she nearly mewled at the innuendo, her hips undulating against me. A tigress reduced to a little kitten at my command. “Everyone would know.”
“You think I give a damn?” My hand circled her throat, thumbing her pulse like she liked to do to me. “You’re mine, little survivor. Let the whole world know it.”
Chapter 19
Hewaskissingme.Five minutes ago, I wanted nothing more than to be alone with my thoughts. Now, his lips were on mine, and despite everything, I couldn’t come up with a single good reason to push him away.
Tonight, he might decide to end my life again, but not right now, and maybe I needed that. So when his lips moved against mine, I melted into it. When his tongue licked against the seam of mine, I let him in. When he began to devour my mouth with fervor, I followed him right off the ledge and down into debauchery.
The concrete wall scratched against my hair and back as his weight kept me locked in place. His hands gripped my hips and squeezed my ass. I lifted my leg around his hip and dug my heel into his firm backside.
I should’ve expected my leg to become his next target. The way his hand slid up from my calf to my thigh made my head spin. My body was on fire as that hand teased its way to my inner thighs, closer to my core. I gripped the placket of his dress shirt, ready to slip my hand inside and feel the hard muscles of hisabs for myself, but when his thumb swept over my panties and tapped against my clit, I dropped my leg back down and pulled back.
Street noises filtered back in. Honking. Talking. The squeal of tires. The light and blurred colors and shapes were overwhelming, giving everything a gray haze. I couldn’t decide whether to keep my eyes closed or deal with all the new stimulation that had none of the focus and clarity of my memories.
We were both breathing hard, and honestly, I wanted to keep going. I really did. It hadn’t been a heavy or imposing touch. Alarm bells hadn’t rung in my head like they had yesterday, but things were headed in a direction that didn’t match where we were together. Not to forget, we were in public, for heaven’s sake.
“All this seduction just to get me to talk?” I asked breathlessly to move us past whatever this was.
