Almost You : A Paranormal, Ghost Romance by Skylar M. Cates

Author:Skylar M. Cates [Cates, Skylar M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skylar M. Cates
Published: 2024-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Christopher

I returned to the ghost realm, this time to find Ghost. It was weird, but my gut had been telling me he needed me. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to say to him. I’d awakened from the hottest dream, my sheets soaked with sweat and cum, my heart racing, my only thought of him. And there he’d been. Watching over me.

I hadn’t been able to see or hear him clearly, but I’d felt he was upset. Confused. Then he’d vanished. What would I even say to him?

Okay, I’d have to start with how to manage the whole ghost thing. Not that I’d ever had a thing for a ghost before. I didn’t have some odd ghost fetish. Not that there was anything wrong with fetishes or being with a ghost, but⁠—

Fuck. That will go over well.

But when I found him, all those concerns vanished. Ghost was curled in a ball, hugging his knees, his beautiful, usually sunny face in shadow.

“Hey.” I crouched beside him. He was in some colorless setting. I felt a pang. This was the same setting I had first found him in.

“You’re back.”

“Yeah.”

“Must be nice.”

“What?” I asked, puzzled at his curt tone.

“To come and go when you want.” He wouldn’t meet my eyes. “To have a say in all that. To know what you want and who you are, and be able to go after it.”

Unsure how to respond, I gingerly sat down beside him. “You can do that with practice through channeling or even other ways.”

“But the people I visit, even if I remember them, won’t truly be able to see me. Nothing I do will ever matter. I was there with you, and I was practically invisible. A fucking shimmer.” He shook his head. “I don’t want that. To find out I can’t look people I used to love in the eyes or have them hear me…unable to control anything that goes on. To just watch the world and never be part of it again. Forget it. I’ll bond with the other ghosts. I’ll go to them.”

“Fuck that! You’re mine, not theirs. You’re already bonded with me. Maybe I didn’t connect everything, but I was in some erotic state of shock. I felt you there, not just a light or a shimmer.” I hugged him to me. “You…you say nothing you do matters? It matters to me. Nobody before you has ever made me feel so good. It matters that you awoke all these new feelings in me.”

“I’m glad. But it doesn’t change the fact that I belong nowhere.”

“You can belong with me.” I shrugged. “If you want.”

With a shudder, Ghost wrapped his arms around my middle. “Yes.”

We stayed this way, simply holding each other. Slowly, colors formed underneath us, green grass, small clusters of flowers, red and pink ones.

A long time later, he tilted his face away, his teeth sinking into his lip. “Do you think I’m terrible for spying on you in bed?”

“Honestly? It was fucking hot.” I ran my thumb over his lip.

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