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Entering the bedroolared into every shadow We may be on an island, far away froain I wouldn’t believe I was strong enough to win another stupid battle

My luck had been used up I was alive And that’s hoanted to keep it

The rooroaned withthe sea inside

I didn’t kno long Suzette would spend with Tess They oossip ca in the centre of the rooe of loneliness squeezedridiculous I was lonely for Tess I just saw her

I rolledI turned in place, intending to stalk across the suite and de Ha! Me I wanted her--to distract h

You can’t

It would look fking laughable Li I wasn’t that weak and I damn ouldn’t show Tess how screwed up I was

Shit

Lynx had done more than made me scream--he’da spa wasn’t an option, a shoould have to do I needed to wash away the past Least it gave ave Suzette time to clear the fk off

The bathrooe tiling I eyed the shower, hankering for heat onundressed proved to be a bitch

Twistinghell trying to tug it over le felt like another baseball bat to led myself only to have the saritted s covered in bruises and bandages

It seeer I was apart from Tess the more I hurt

Another reason why I wouldn’t let her sleep withouton the water, I stood like a fking puy Water splashed into the drain, stea but all I saas death Every droplet, so innocent, was a silent killer just waiting for me to step under the torrent

Get in there, assle

Balling my hands, I stepped under the spray Every muscle locked; my heart exploded in fear My eyes stayed wide, terrified my vision would be traded for a black towel I’d never had an issue getting over things I’d done or caused I’d never had a second thought of being shot or torturing others

But this

That bastard had stolen the sihthated it

I threwether, and my nostrils flared for breath

You can breathe

No one is trying to murder you

I forcedand endured

My heartbeat thundered in etting control on my runaway emotions

By the time I’d washed, rinsed, and soaped away the past few days, my heart rate was calmer and I wouldn’t make a fool of myself next ti froes on et the

I was clean And noas bone-weary and ready to drop into a co to dryto fking happen--I padded barefoot and nad through the house to the other wing I hoped to God Suzette had left otherwise she would get an eyeful Not that it seemed to matter Most of my staff had seen me naked--hazards of the job

A few bedrooms branched off the wide corridor; I peered into each one before I foundthe passed out figure in the centre of the bed look fragile, lonely--so fking vulnerable

She’d had a shower too, s of fruit and whatever shit was in the sha into the rooled body My heart physically hurt looking at her Her features were shthouse, guidingbetween my teeth as I lowered my body froainst ain The fronts ofas the sheets stuck to cuts not covered with bandages Every inch of ony

But I didn’t care

I didn’t care because I was in bed Safe Beside her

Tess’s breathing changed as I shifted closer Her forhter ball "Q?"

"C’estheat and welco my damp hair as I settled painfully onto my side Her eyesyou Ensuite, j’irai bien" Then I will be

Tess didn’t utter another word Obediently, she turned over, pressing her bed-warainst y, the aches and bruises and cuts all faded into non-existence

Nothing else mattered anyhed heavily, breathing in the fruitiness of her hair "God, I needed that Needed you"

She ainst me Already it was too hot beneath the covers but an atos twitched as sleepiness attackedher ho My libido was in a co me down fast with it

I yawned "This This is what I want for the rest ofthem over her breast Her ass pressed harder into led to rise But after everything I’d been through, it just wasn’t going to happen

Tonight wasn’t about sex or do and sowing Reconnection with gentleness rather than pain

We’d both had enough