Lunamare: A Coming of Age Life Story Romance (The Luna Duet Book 1) by Pepper Winters

Author:Pepper Winters [Winters, Pepper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspence, coming of age, new adult, romance, general romance, pepper winters, soulmates, multiracial couple, childhood friends to lovers, forbidden romance, touch her and your die, protective hero, tragedy, contemporary romance, women's fiction
Publisher: Pepper Winters
Published: 2023-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

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Aslan

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(Moon in Hindi: Chandrama)

“ASLAN...TALK TO ME.” NERI SAT BESIDE me as I fisted the steering wheel and chose different streets to avoid the breath testing roadblock.

“Aslan...? What...what was that back in there? You...you kissed me.” Rubbing her arms, she shook her head. “You kissed me and—” She cut herself off, touching her lips where I’d bruised her. “Did you kiss me just to stop that guy from being a dick? Did you mean to kiss me that roughly? Did you—”

“Not yet.” My foot wanted to stomp on the accelerator, but I forced myself to drive below the speed limit. No way would I risk being pulled over. Not when I was so close to figuring out how to live.

“Not yet? What does that mean?”

“It means...I don’t want to talk about it. Not yet.”

“I hate to tell you, but you can’t ignore this. You can’t send me a text pretending that kiss didn’t happen. You can’t try to gaslight me into believing it meant nothing when every part of me says it was—”

“Everything. It was everything. I know that.” I threw her a look before focusing back on the road. “It happened. I’m not going to deny it.”

“You’re not?” Her tone flirted with confused. “But...you haven’t so much as touched me this past year—”

“You’re with him.”

“Joel?”

My teeth ground to dust, unable to picture her lips—lips that tangled my stomach and fisted my heart—on another guy’s.

I nodded curtly.

A long pause before she whispered, “I broke up with him tonight.”

“What?” I swerved into the other lane as I looked at her. “You did?”

She couldn’t hold my stare, dropping her chin and twining her fingers together. “I couldn’t do it anymore.”

“Why?” I choked on those three little letters, heading back to the right side of the road.

“Why?” she whispered. “Do you really need to ask?”

I jerked and my heart lost all resemblance of pumping like normal. I was wired and jittery and so fucking wild, I couldn’t stay human anymore.

Spying the first patch of darkness up ahead, I stomped on the gas.

Neri looked up. “Aslan, slow down. You don’t want to be pulled over.”

“Already have. On the way to you.”

“You did?” Her mouth dropped open. “Oh my God. How did you...I mean...why didn’t they—?”

“Take me?”

She swallowed hard. “Didn’t they ask for identification?”

“I got lucky.”

Placing her hand over her heart, her voice wobbled. “God, just the thought of you being taken. I don’t think I could handle it.” A single tear rolled down her cheek. “Promise me you’ll find a way to stay here. Legally. So we don’t have to fear—”

“I’m yours, Nerida.” My gut wrenched in two as I reached across and swiped my thumb over her tear-wet cheekbone. “Here. There. Everywhere.”

I’d never spoken such truer words.

Never thought I would allow myself.

I couldn’t assure her that I’d never be deported.

I couldn’t assure her that all her fantastical plans of getting married and gaining a visa would come true.

But I was done letting all of that keep us apart.

I was done fucking fighting.

Fighting every fibre in my being that screamed my one true path was her.

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