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. You re scaring me. She climbed backward up a stair, then looked over her shoulder atthe looming, open doorway and scrambled back down.He didn t want to scare her.He liked it so much better when she gave shy smiles and fellinto stilted conversation with him.But he wanted more.He wanted her at his sidewillingly.He wanted to know she was safe, and wanted her to know it. I don t want you to die. He went to the bed and dropped down, covering his face in hishands.The words, once he began to speak, were surprisingly easy and terrifying. I wantCreate PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com)you to be alive, with me.I want to leave this place, and I want you to follow me.Foronce, I want someone to follow me.Because I want you.I love you, and& She knelt at his side and laid her hand on his knee, but she didn t speak.God, what had he said? What would he say when he opened his mouth next?Words he couldn t stop poured from him like the hot tears that welled in the corners of hiseyes.He lifted his head to look at her.Her expression was kind and concerned, as thoughhe were a child who d scraped his knees.Her kindness was a high ledge on a tall building, one he couldn t help but test by steppingonto it. Could you ever love me?She didn t answer right away.What fearful iron door would slam closed to him if she saidno? Would he bury his hurt in cruelty, the way he d always done when someone rejectedhim? That wasn t the kind of person he wanted to be.His tongue felt thick in his mouth ashe tried to repeat himself. Could you  You can t love me, she interrupted quietly.Her palm was warm against his face, but notas shockingly hot as it would have been if he were a vampire.No, now human touchwasn t severe.Her eyes sad, she stroked his cheek. You ve only known me for threedays.He laughed at his own stupidity. It feels&  Real, she finished for him.After a moment s hesitation, she took his hand and laced theirfingers together. I know.And I know it can t be real.But I ve always prayed forsomething to happen.Something to make me happy.I know I m going to die.Maybeyou re& Maybe this is all the happiness I m going to get.Her reasoning pierced his heart, but he wasn t fool enough to believe he could really loveher.The same disgusting desperation he d seen in hundreds of frightened, cast-off girls, herecognized in her.And in himself.He opened his mouth to disagree with her, to insist shewould live to find better, but her mouth crushed his and she wound her arms around hisneck.He lost his balance and they fell across the bed, her hands tangling in his hair to holdhis face to hers.As if he would let her go.He was conscious of raising his arms, but had no control over the way they curved aroundher back and tightened, pulling her so hard to his chest he could barely breathe.Shesquirmed in his grip and he loosened his hold.He didn t want to scare her.In a crazy way,he felt if she pulled away now he would lose her forever.Her hands splayed on his chest.Their touch burned him, but he shuddered as if she weremade of ice.He moved his lips from her hungry mouth to the delicate curve of her jawhow could he have ever thought her plain? then to her ear.She moaned, a sound at onceendearingly innocent and painfully arousing.Thrusting his fingers into the gentle waves ofher hair, he gathered the softness to his face.The feel and smell of her dredged up all the nights he d spent in the arms of lovers, wives,wishing they would return his affection, and pretending all he desired was their bodies.They never returned his love, even when he demanded it.Perhaps she didn t either, but he had not asked her to say the words.He d asked her tolove him.In her kiss, Cyrus had found Mouse s answer.She could, and did, love him.Forwhatever reason, she trusted and loved him.Reaching for the hem of her T-shirt, he skimmed his hands up her bare legs, over the curveCreate PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com)of her buttocks as he bunched the garment around her waist.He rolled her onto her back,covering her with his body as he did so, and her eyes flew open in shock.For a moment heimagined she would end it, but longing glazed her eyes again.He captured her mouth withhis before she could have another moment of doubt.She believed he was her last chance athappiness, so he couldn t help but wonder if she was his, as well.If that was true, then heneeded this.She lifted her hips against his awkwardly, her brow creasing in frustration above herclosed eyes.He leaned back, concentrating his gaze on the seam in the hem of the T-shirt.If he looked anywhere else, at the questioning on her flushed face, at the dark hairshadowing the junction of her thighs, he might think, might talk himself out of this.Cyrus glanced across the darkened room to the stairs, but he knew no one would bewatching.None of them would dare come down after the fate that had befallen theircomrades.Mouse rose on her elbows and helped him pull the shirt over her head.That moment ofbravery was short-lived, fleeing once she was exposed before him.She folded her armsacross her breasts.With shaking hands, he guided them away, leaving her bare to his gaze.Her chest jerked with her harsh breathing.Though the room was not cold, her skinpuckered with gooseflesh and the rosy peaks of her nipples hardened.Cyrus covered one breast with the palm of his hand and Mouse moaned, arching into histouch.He fought the temptation to compare her to the others, the ones he d seduced intogiving up their bodies and their lives.This was different.When this night was over, shewould still be at his side.It was a frightening, comforting thought [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]