All He Asks 3 by Sparrow Felicity

Author:Sparrow, Felicity [Sparrow, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-06T08:00:00+00:00

Four

Raoul’s balcony has an excellent view. The city looks small from up here—so small that I can imagine my problems are distant and tiny. It’s hard to imagine that there are millions of people in the city, all of them with problems of their own, struggling to get through the day.

From up here, everything looks serene.

Dawn will break soon. I haven’t slept at all, even once I’ve cried myself to a state of physical exhaustion to match my emotional one. And I will soon have to go into the office to face reality.

With my hands gripping the rail, I look down on traffic far below. I can’t hear the cars, but I see them inching along the road and around the corners and vanishing around other buildings. I wonder who is inside those cars. I wonder if they have troubles like I do.

Or perhaps I am the only one suffering in this kind of insanity.

The door whispers open behind me and I know that Raoul has joined me on the balcony. I’m acutely aware of his every movement, the way that his clothes rub together as he walks, the space that he occupies. It feels like the sunlight is dawning over me.

But today, even Raoul’s sunshine cannot warm me. I am cold inside. Frozen to my core.

His chest presses against my back and his arms encircle my body. I’m startled that he touches me so readily. When he left earlier, I thought that it was a rejection of me—the woman who can’t escape Erik Duke. But he is as comfortable touching me as ever.

Raoul’s lips dip to my ear. “We will fix this, Little Christy,” he whispers. “There’s no reason to be afraid.”

I feel like I should deny that I am afraid. I should put on a mask and hide my feelings. But I can’t.

I also can’t bring myself to turn around and face Raoul. Tears make the glittering skyscrapers around me blur. “Everything with Durand-Price is going to go very badly. I can feel it.”

Raoul plants a kiss on the side of my jaw, feather light and soft. I have to close my eyes because the sensation is so overwhelming. He is warm, so warm that I might burn.

He kisses down my neck to the point where the dress meets my shoulder. His fingers skim my back underneath my hair. “I don’t care what’s happened with Duke,” he whispers, voice as heated as his breath on my skin. “It’s not your fault. I meant it when I said that nothing could change the way I feel about you. As long as you want to be with me, I’ll be here.”

His fingers toy with the zipper on the back of the dress. My skin is electric where we touch.

I can feel in the rigidity of his muscles that he is thinking about drawing the zipper down, but he hesitates. Raoul knows what he wants. He only questions if I want to.

It’s amazing that he could ask himself that. There’s no doubt in my mind—I know exactly what I want him to do.

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