The smile that spilled across his face was too much—I couldn’t resist it anymore. My fingers darted up, tangling in his hair, and I pressed my mouth to his. It was all warmth and heat, a kiss I felt like I’d been waiting my entire life for.
A kiss I would happily give forever to keep. I opened myself up to it, and for the first time, I felt like I could give himeverything. All of me—every piece I’d held back because I wastoo afraid of what it would mean, too guilty to think I deserved it. I pulled back and looked at him—really looked at him—and realized… we really did have forever. And I wanted forever to starttoday.
“Come on,” I whispered against his lips. “Let’s go home.”
“Home…” he echoed, and then took my hand in his again. “Okay. Let’s go home.”
The petal on the ground caught in the breeze, flickering and fading to a soft red as it drifted away.
Chapter 34
Sephtis
“Do you really love me?”Cole’s voice was a husky warmth in my ear as soon as we stepped over the threshold and into my apartment. He’d been running his fingers carefully along the back of my hand, tracing the unfamiliar heat like it was something fascinating to him…
It was doing things to me—things I hadn’t expected. It made desire bubble beneath my skin, made my body clench.
I’d felt things before, but this was different. Every touch made my nerve endings feel…
Alive.
I wasalive, and the only thing my body wanted was Cole.
“I can tell you again, if you want?” I leaned down and brushed my mouth against his as I closed and locked the door behind us.
Not because we had to be here—not because the apartment was a safe, neutral zone.
Because Cole wanted to gohome,and apparently home was wherever I took him.
“I don’t want you to tell me.” He broke our kiss, but our fingers were still linked as he walked back toward the bedroom. “I want you to show me. Show me like it’s the first time.”
In a way, it was. It was the first time I felt blood rush to my face when he whispered in that soft, husky voice. The first time I felt my pulse leap into my throat, nearly choking me.
“Okay. Let me earnforever,” I murmured, pressing my lips against his as I walked him back to my bedroom.
Ourbedroom.
I wanted to wrap myself around the thought ofusand live somewhere in the middle of it.
“Lie back and think of what I’m going to do to you.” He whispered the tease against my lips, and my eyes widened.
“What are you doing?”
He glanced down at his chest—at the blood and dirt from the graveyard. “I’m going to go rinse off. Don’t worry, I won’t be long. Besides… you made me wait while you got kidnapped by Death.”
He turned his back on me, and I heard the shower start. I took my time stripping, running my fingers along my burning skin. By the time the shower switched off, my cock was hard and my body was trembling in anticipation… and from the appreciative look on his face as he exited the bathroom with wet hair and a bottle of lotion in his hand, I was starting to wonder if he’d done it on purpose.
I was caught up watching him, enraptured by the way he looked when he stalked toward me… and hestalked.Cole was nude and still a little damp from the water, moving like he was a predator with his eyes on something he wanted to devour.I could see it—he’d told me he wanted me to show him… but I had a feeling it was going to be just like before.
As much as I wanted, as much as Ineeded, he was going to be the one who took charge.
I was fine with that.
His hand planted in the middle of my chest and he shoved me back on the bed, crawling on top of me. When his lipscaught mine, I moaned into his mouth as he made quick work of slicking both of our cocks with enough lotion that our bodies moving against each other were nearly enough to drive me wild. I could have gotten off like this—could have lived in his touch. He was fire, and I could finally feel him burning all the way through me. I could feel the way he made my blood rush, my body hot.
I could feel everything so much more than I had before, and I wanted…
I wanted…
