Night Reigns by Duvall Dianne

Author:Duvall, Dianne [Duvall, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2011-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Ami’s courage faltered as heat bloomed in her cheeks.

Why had she just said that? Marcus looked ... flabbergasted.

What if she had misunderstood him? What if he hadn’t been trying to tell her he was ready to move past his grief and begin anew. With her. Why would he want to start a relationship with her? She was a mess, fighting to overcome new fears instilled by old demons. Monsters who visited her in nightmares if given the slightest invitation.

She wasn’t the woman she used to be. The woman she wanted to be. Strove to be. And feared she never would be again.

And she wasn’t the kind of woman Marcus preferred: bold and full of fire like Bethany.

Ami had barely managed to admit she liked the brush of his lips, his body pressed to hers. She was innocent. Completely. She could never be like the women she saw on TV who thought sex a fun pastime to share with men they had just met or, if you believed those horrid Valentine’s Day commercials, that sex was merely a means of procuring shiny baubles.

Marcus had given Ami her first kiss, something she would always treasure. Marcus had been the first man to hold her in a nonbrotherly fashion. To make her heart race madly. As it did now.

“What did you say?” he asked, interrupting her harried thoughts as he stopped a breath away.

She swallowed hard. He stood so close Ami could feel the heat from his body. “I like kissing you.”

His eyes flared amber.

“And touching you.”

The amber grew brighter still, glowing like the moon. “I like kissing you, too,” he murmured with a look in those iridescent eyes that made everything within her go liquid. “I like kissing you and touching you so much that I want to do it again and again until I’ve memorized every inch of you.”

And she wished he would, though it went against everything she had been taught. “I’m not who you think I am,” she confessed with a touch of desperation.

He leaned in closer, his breath warming her cheek. “I think you’re my Second. The best I’ve ever had. I think you’re my friend. I think you’re intelligent and funny and so beautiful you rob me of rational thought.”

Her pulse raced as he rubbed his nose against hers.

“I think you’re the strongest, most courageous and intriguing woman I have ever known. Is that not who you are?”

She didn’t know whether to bury her fingers in his hair and drag his lips forward the inch that separated them or to burst into tears. “I’m a coward,” she whispered.

Fury blazed in his eyes. “Who told you that?” he demanded roughly.

“No one. I just ... am. I’m not those things you said, Marcus, no matter how much I want to be. I’m not strong like you. I was once, but then ...” She shook her head, unable to overcome her reluctance to tell him. “I’m not fearless.”

His lips quirked up at their corners as he cupped her face in one large hand.

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