Damaged Rebel Next Door_A Neighbor Rebel Romance by Melissa Devenport

Author:Melissa Devenport [Devenport, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The Light

Katelyn

The first time they’d had each other, it hadn’t been slow. It had been wild and driven, heated. It had been dark. It wasn’t dark this time. It was the middle of the afternoon and there they stood, again in Kian’s bedroom, their clothes in a tangled pile on the floor, the soft light seeping through the blinds playing over her pale skin, illuminating the black ink on his.

She couldn’t remember a time she’d ever been so bold. She wanted him to look at her. To see her. To explore her and leave her trembling and untouched. She wanted him to taste her, to drive her into madness. Almost as badly as she wanted to do it to him.

The golden glow in the room glinted off the fine web of lines at the corners of Kian’s eyes and lips. They could have been put there, those tiny etched crevices, by smiling or laughter, but she knew they weren’t. They were etched there by grief, by being forced to walk the hardest road of all, a road in which your child went before you. A road in which you don’t get to grow old with your partner, a road in which all that should have been yours has been savagely ripped away.

He met her gaze and his eyes filled with sudden understanding. She felt odd, standing there unclothed, having such dark thoughts. “It might not be the best time to tell you this,” he said in a voice that could have been called tender. “But I’m tired of being alone. So very tired of the emptiness of this house, of my life, of my heart.”

“Kian, I…” I what? How was she supposed to finish that statement? I want to be there for you? I want to be your everything? It’s not natural to feel this way after so short a time, but I do. Like we were made for each other despite everything. “I want you just as you are,” she finally whispered. It could have been pathetic, that statement, but she could tell from the glow in his black eyes that he was moved.

“I want you… I want to teach you how incredible you are. I want to show you… how much is possible.”

She blushed violently. “I bet you say that to all the girls.” Her attempt at a joke fell awkwardly flat until Kian cleared his throat.

“You’re the only one I’ve been with… since it happened. The accident. You’re the only woman I have ever wanted. I tried so hard to keep you away. To keep you from touching me, seeing me, who I really am, and now… you’re here. You’re here- with me.” He had to force the last words out.

Katelyn felt perilously close to tears. She wanted to weep for his pain and her pain and the redemption she found in his arms. In how much they both needed each other and how it had come so close to not happening. How it might not happen still.

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