Page 14 of Darkness Consuming
Chapter Seven
Prove It
Nollix
The way she’s looking at me says a thousand words even if she won’t say a single one of them. Something happened today. Lines of frustration crease her brow as her lips pull down in thought.
“Why didn’t you come earlier when I tried to call you here?”
“I couldn’t get the offering to take.” It’s becoming more and more reluctant to take effect. I have to be damn near asleep for the smoke to overtake my mind and bring me to her.
Her arms cross over the thin white shirt she’s been wearing to bed. She seems to have more clothes here. She looks more casual. I’ve never seen her wear anything like that when we were in the Hunt. She was always nicely covered up. And now she’s not.
Warm sun-kissed skin draws my attention down the length of her frame, over the soft curve of her thighs. I tear my gaze away from the smooth span of her long legs.
“My imaginary friend is so full of excuses.”
What?
My lips part with outrage and I have to calm myself to even begin to speak rationally.
“You still don’t believe I’m real?” My hand pushes roughly through my hair.
This is bullshit. I’ve poured my heart out to her for days and still I get no credit for it. I’ve been nicer to her than I’ve ever been to anyone in my entire life. It didn’t even take any effort. I genuinely just wanted to comfort her. If she just understood that I was really here for her …
“You’re just this awful part of my mind trying to cope with this more awful reality.”
I’m an awful part of her mind?What the fuck?
“What do I have to do to prove I’m the real deal?”
Her pale brows crease slightly before her small shoulders pull up in a shrug.
My gaze trails over her thin shirt, racking my brain for something to convince her. I have to give her something she doesn’t believe, something she’d never tell herself.
“You were the most beautiful woman I ever met. Youare—youarethe most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. You were quiet but your emotions were always right there on the surface. Especially when you were angry. Always when you were angry.”
The column of her throat works as she swallows hard. Her arms fold across her chest, amplifying her breasts into a sexy sight.
“I knew Link loved you, and I was too much of an asshole to let his feelings for you get in the way of how attracted I was to you.”
“None of that stuff proves anything. It proves nothing. It’s just words. Words I could be thinking to try to make myself feel better.”
My brows rise. Is she fucking serious right now?
I get zero credit. None.
Fuck it. Actions speak louder than words, is that what we’re saying?
Roughly, I pull at the back of my shirt until it slides up my abdomen. I toss it to the dark floor with my gaze trained on her pretty features.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m your hallucination. You tell me, Vi.”
“I’ve stared at you shirtless more times than I’d like to confess. I could easily entertain myself with the memory of your hard abs, Nollix.”
My hard abs?
