Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 123779 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 619(@200wpm)___ 495(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 123779 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 619(@200wpm)___ 495(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
“Let. Me. In!” His voice strikes like a lightning bolt in my mind, and I don’t stand a chance against his power as he invades every inch of me.
Raighne
I’m not giving Alchera a choice anymore. I’m done playing the patient game.
Forcing her lips open, my tongue lashes at hers as I pour everything I am into her.
“This ends now,” I demand.
She whimpers against my mouth before her arms wrap around my neck, and she begins to kiss me back.
My lips take hers roughly, demanding she accepts me once and for all.
Because without her, I’m nothing.
Alchera kisses me with the same passion, and when her walls come crashing down, I enter her mind before she can try to shut me out again.
God, he’s going to find out how I feel about him.
Shit.
Her panicked thoughts rush around me, like prey trying to escape a predator.
I dig deeper, desperate to know her true feelings.
Shut down. Shit. Shut down.
God, he tastes so good, but I can’t risk him finding out. I can’t kiss him and want him when he doesn’t want me in the same way.
She tries to break the kiss, but I only intensify my assault, and when there are no more barriers between us and I hear all her thoughts, I’m shocked by what I find.
I see myself through Alchera’s eyes – how she admires me and thinks I’m the hottest man she’s ever laid eyes on.
Holy fuck.
I feel every emotion she feels for me, how her love has grown from being infatuated with me to loving me so much it brings her heartache.
“You love me?” I ask, stunned by the discovery.
She rips free from my hold, and gasping, her features crumble as she stares at me as if I betrayed her.
“How could you?” she cries. “You weren’t supposed to find out.”
Alchera loves me. How did I not see it?
Just as she turns around to escape to the bathroom, I grab hold of her arm and pull her back to me.
“No!” She slams her fist against my chest. “I’m done with this.”
Feeling her panic and embarrassment, I frame her face with my hands and forcefully keep her in place as I capture her eyes and hold them imprisoned.
“Why did you hide your true feelings from me?”
“Was I supposed to run after you like a lovesick puppy?” she exclaims. I feel her temper flare, then she fights to get free from my hold. “Let go of me, Raighne!”
“Never,” I growl. I close the distance between us until there’s barely an inch separating our faces. “I will never let you go.”
Tears spill from her eyes, and I feel the wave of embarrassment and frustration hit her again.
“Why are you embarrassed?” I demand.
Her gaze narrows on me. “Seriously? How do you expect me to react when you just force your way into my mind and steal my secrets?”
“Why keep it a secret?”
She shakes her head and stops trying to get free from my hold. Closing her eyes, she admits, “Because I don’t want to be the stupid woman who fell in love with her guardian when he only sees her as his charge.”
What the actual fuck?
Frowning at her, I order, “Look at me.”
She lets out a defeated sigh before opening her eyes again.
“You’re not just my charge, Alchera. More than once, I’ve told you there’s no one more important.”
“Yeah, because of our bond and my destiny,” she mutters. “I get it.”
“I’m not talking about your destiny right now,” I snap, my tone way too harsh. “This is about us. Just you and me. Man to woman.”
Confusion flutters over her face, and it has me spelling out the words to her. “I love you, Alchera. Why do you think I got upset whenever you spent time with Storm? Fuck, I wanted to rip the man’s head off when you smiled at him.”
Her lips part in shock, and I watch as she struggles to accept what I’m telling her.
“I love you,” I repeat the words, my tone a little gentler. “When I say there’s no one more important to me, I mean in every aspect of my life. Only you matter to me.”
A solid minute passes where she can only stare at me, utterly stunned, before she whispers, “I didn’t know.”
I can feel she’s holding back, too scared she might be misunderstanding what I’m saying.
Closing the distance between us again, I press my mouth to hers. “I’m not kissing you to heal you. I’m kissing you because I want to taste you.” My tongue dives into her mouth. “Because I desperately need to claim you as mine so no other man can steal you from me.”
Happiness trickles into her heart, and it makes the corner of my mouth curve up before I begin to devour her.
Holy shit. Raighne loves me.
I can’t believe it.
As I hear her thoughts clearly, I feel all her emotions and what it’s like for her to kiss me. With nothing standing between us any longer, I can see through her eyes, experience everything she experiences, and hear everything she thinks.