Secrets and Tears by Dori Lavelle

Author:Dori Lavelle [Lavelle, Dori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Thriller
Goodreads: 30123759
Publisher: Dori Lavelle
Published: 2016-05-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

A touch on my cheek woke me. As I opened my swollen eyes, for a split second I thought I was back in Boca Raton. Damn wrong. The yacht from hell was still my home. How long had it been since I’d tried to escape? Hours?

My eyes cleared. The eyes that looked down at me were Miles’s, wet and filled with worry.

I moved away from his touch, unsure whether it was really him. The pillow beneath my cheek was cool, drenched with my tears.

“Are you okay?” He touched my cheek again. “You were talking in your sleep.”

I must have been so deeply asleep, I had not heard him enter. I had waited so long for him to show up, but now I found myself fighting through cobwebs of confusion.

Could I trust him? How deep below the surface was Alvin lurking? How soon until he crept out of the darkness and pounced on me, punished me again for trying to run?

“Don’t be afraid,” he said.

He tried to touch me again and I shrank back, dragging myself out of his reach, away from his fragile comfort. He didn’t give up, pulling me to his body and holding me in his arms.

A tear dropped to my shoulder and trickled down my arm. He was crying.

Hungry and desperate for comfort, I found the strength to lift myself from the mattress. I wrapped my arms around his neck. In that moment, I wasn’t holding Alvin at all. It was Miles. I knew the sound of his breathing, the rhythm of his heart.

He continued crying, and so did I. We crashed into each other’s pain, together and so much apart. My longing for him took me by surprise.

Alvin could come back any moment, but I couldn’t pull away. Even when Miles broke the embrace and held my face between his hands, I was too weak to resist, too weak to do anything.

When he kissed the tears from my cheeks, I didn’t fight him. Not even when he smoothed my hair, placed a finger under my chin, and kissed me on the lips.

Alvin had kissed me once, but it had left my lips aching for hours. Miles didn’t taste like Alvin; he tasted like the man I used to love.

Right now my feelings were all over the place. I didn’t even love Miles anymore. Or did I? If I didn’t, was my body betraying me? Why was it responding to him?

He deepened the kiss, his tongue dancing with mine, hard and wet, and urgent.

The coldness that had infiltrated my whole being melted from the fire that coursed through my veins.

He lowered me to the mattress and I wept from pain and pleasure. The more I cried, the gentler he became. His fingers were unhurried and gentle, unlike Alvin’s.

I found the courage to pull back. I did not want to fool myself into thinking everything would be alright. But one look into Miles’s eyes assured me of my safety, for now.

Miles would not stay, but maybe getting closer to him would mollify Alvin… reach him in some way.

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