Fallen Angel: Running with the Devil Book 10 by Jasmin Quinn

Author:Jasmin Quinn [Quinn, Jasmin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999037154
Publisher: Jem Monday Publishing
Published: 2019-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Rob held Emma to his chest, his mind fogged by the best sex of his life. His emotions were scattered, and he couldn’t pull them together to form a coherent thought. He wanted to know what Emma was thinking, but he wasn’t going to ask, didn’t want to take the risk that she wasn’t sharing his feelings.

She turned in his arms, her hands clasping his face, soft palms rubbing against his scruff. “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” she said with a fervency he didn’t think she had in her.

The prick in him chuckled and said, “That’s hardly an endorsement.” He wanted to take it back as her eyes narrowed at him.

Her tone became more pointed, like she was steeling herself for a fight. “You say you want to keep me. I want you to keep me.” She tugged at his hair reminding him he needed to see a barber. “For however long you’ll have me, I want that.” Her voice broke and she teared up.

With a soft sigh, Rob hugged her tighter to him, his fingers seeking out the ink on her back. Though he couldn’t see it, he imagined it under his touch, the scars where her wings had once been, and wished he’d known her before she was so hurt that she would mar herself this way.

He struggled to say what was in his heart. He wasn’t a fucking poet, could barely string two sentences together on a good day. “You’re mine,” he said, his voice the rasp of a rusted chainsaw. “You’ll always be mine.” He wished for a drink, a cigarette, anything that would help him find the words this sweet woman in his arms seemed to be seeking.

“Thank you,” she murmured against his chest, her hands circling his nipples. He tried to decipher her tone. Was it enough, what he said? Would it convince her he was being genuine?

He flipped to his back, bringing her with him so that her head was on his chest, her hand stealing to his stomach, her fingers tracing his abs. “Amber was my first love.” Yeah, talking about another woman, that was the way to Hula’s heart. Fuck. “She was sweet and needed me. And I needed her. Neither of us really understood love, what it meant as a lifelong commitment.”

Emma shifted in his arms, tilting her chin up so she could see him.

“I didn’t cheat on her, we were exclusive. I wanted to marry her, but she didn’t want that. She was smarter than me that way, I guess. She said we were like two lost souls needing each other, but she always thought we weren’t enough in love.”

“Were you?” Emma’s soft voice slipped into the darkest recess of his soul.

“Maybe… yes. I’m fucked up, as much as you or her. She said we were mixing up need and love.” He paused, tired of talking, but knowing there was more to say. “But isn’t that the same thing?”

The silence lingered, then Emma rolled

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