Field of Lilies (Bouquet of Lies Duet: Book Two): (A Curvy Girl Dark Romance) by DV Fischer

Author:DV Fischer [Fischer, DV]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Divinus Kingdom Publishing, LLC
Published: 2024-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Killian Savage

I dress while she does. I kissed her after sex, and this time it was different than the other times our lips met. I can’t put my finger on it – why it was different – but I know that it meant something to her too. I saw it in her eyes when I pulled away. It makes me wonder what my own face looked like if I looked as confused as I felt because I haven’t felt this way since the last time I kissed my wife. That was the morning of the day she died. The day that changed everything.

Kissing her feels like being pulled from a coffin I buried myself alive in. Because I deserved it. Because I belonged there. But the moment she’s in my space, I feel relief. Fresh oxygen. The fading of fear. The pull back from the slow suicide I’ve been striving for when I put myself in that coffin in the first place.

I didn’t know I was walking a dark path until her. It doesn’t turn my mind from the man I’m trying to find, and it doesn’t change my outlook on life, but it does make me feel like I found a home when I didn’t feel like that’d ever be possible again. A home in her.

How am I supposed to leave her now? It may just be the hardest thing I’ll ever do, and I’ve done a lot of difficult things, but I promised myself I’d make that man pay. While standing on their fresh graves, I swore to my dead wife and kids that I’d make him suffer.

I push back a few loose strands of hair and turn to face her as she buttons up her shorts. When she’s finished, she swivels on her heels to me with her lips twisted to the side.

“What?” I ask, a little amused by the expression.

“I swear to god that I never do this.”

I cock my head to the side. “Do what?”

She cringes. “I never sleep with a guy twice.” The grin I wear makes her laugh. “What?”

“Does that mean you like me?” I tease.

Her face sobers, and I know then that what she’s going to say next does not play along with my joke. She’s serious when she admits in a murmur, “I shouldn’t. I don’t even know you, and . . .”

“And what?” I murmur back. It’s the only volume I can muster because, for some odd reason, my heart patterns a different beat, waiting on bated breath as she bares the truth.

Her shrug is small. “You won’t even share anything with me about yourself. I know nothing about you.”

I consider her carefully. “But you like me anyway?”

She crosses her arms and looks down at her feet as she toes the floor. “I shouldn’t. By all rights, I shouldn’t be more than attracted to you.”

“You’re right,” I whisper. “You shouldn’t.”

She raises her gaze to mine and studies me for a second. “Why?”

I clench my jaw because denying her what she’s feeling isn’t an easy thing to do.

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