Why Stars Chase the Sun (Forget Me Knot Series Book 1) by C.R. Ellis

Author:C.R. Ellis [Ellis, C.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarLex Publishing
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Jade

Yes, yes, yesssss. Victory is mine! I was hoping my antics would lure Emmett on top of me so he’d make good on his promise of what would happen next time his hands were on me. I no longer cared about the dull ache still spreading through my limbs. Being in Emmett’s presence was the perfect antidote to the effects of whatever was slipped into my drink last night. I had questions about what had happened to me, and I was actually shocked at how little freaking out I had done about the whole ordeal. Emmett, I suspected, had something to do with that. The revelations, the truths he gave me, weren’t meant to be a distraction, but they were.

In the best way possible.

Emmett leaned over me and let his hands stroke my skin in what felt more like a ticklish caress than a true tickle, while his lips found my neck and trailed a path of kisses across my throat. It was the perfect balance, his deft fingers moving in a torturously meticulous pace, and his lips, my god those lips, owning each inch of skin they covered. I moaned when his stubble grazed my jaw, which only spurred on the movement of his skillful fingers. I could smell victory, and it smelled a lot like Emmett’s cologne. I had him right where I wanted him.

Until I didn’t.

I regretted the slight, involuntary grunt of pain as soon as it gurgled from my throat. Emmett wasn’t even putting any real weight on me; his body was hovering over mine, and his fingers were feather-light as they came alive and danced across my skin. I twisted around in faux protest, causing his elbow to connect with the inside of my knee.

“Shit!” Emmett’s forehead wrinkled with guilt as his eyes softened with regret once he was settled at the far side of the couch. His chest heaved as he tried to get control of his breathing. “Are you okay? Shit, Jade. I’m sorry, I wasn’t thinking.”

My eyebrows pinched together. I sat up and adjusted the shirt now dangerously close to revealing the color of my panties. “What? Emmett, I’m fine. Just knocked my knee against your elbow. Nothing to worry about, I’m not made of glass.”

“But you were hospitalized less than twenty-four hours ago, Jade. I shouldn’t have gotten carried away.” He rubbed his hands over his face before lacing them together behind his neck.

I inched toward him and reached to untangle his fingers. I smiled at him, hoping to elicit one of his own killer smiles. “I know, Emmett. But I’m a lot stronger than I look right now, promise.”

His lips lifted slowly at the corners, pulling into the smile I had hoped for. The smile that did inexplicable things to my heart. “I know, pretty girl. You’re a helluva lot stronger than I am.”

My head tilted in confusion.

“Jade, I’ve never been as absolutely terrified as I was last night when Harrison called. I couldn’t stop picturing you, limp and unconscious in some shitty alley.

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