Wings & Roots (The Scions Book 3) by Gemma Weir

Author:Gemma Weir [Weir, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

I stare at my closed bedroom door long after he’s left.

Griff just kissed me.

Griffin just kissed me.

Griffin Elijah Bennett just fucking kissed me.

I wait for my brain to process it, for my mind to figure out what the hell just happened and tell me how to feel about it, but ten minutes later, my eyes are still fixated on the door he just left through and all I can hear and see and feel is static.

Logically, I know I should be horrified that he kissed me, because he’s my friend, my best friend, my family. Right?

Logic, yep, that’s the way I should be feeling, logical. Only right now, logic feels like something other people have. My mind feels… fuzzy, distorted, like the way your vision gets after a few too many drinks.

I know how I should be feeling, but instead I’m blurred and conflicted and dazed.

Launching myself off my bed, I stomp forward, intent on storming into his bedroom and insisting to know what the hell that was, what the hell he thought he was doing kissing me. Why he just pressed his mouth against mine, why he pushed his tongue between my lips, why he made my heart race, my breath pause. Why he just obliterated my clear logical world into a cascade of chaotic psychedelic mayhem.

When my fingers touch the door handle, the rest of my body freezes, refusing to move forward. I don’t know if it’s fear or hope or apprehension, but something prevents me from going any further.

Confronting him is a risk. Do I want to know? What if his answer’s good, or bad, or something that I just can’t handle right now? So instead of plowing forward I step back, my fingers sliding from the door and falling to my sides as I retreat.

The back of my knees hit the bed and as I sink down onto the comforter a blast of Griff’s familiar scent fills my nose. Rolling to my side, I curl into a ball and pull my knees up to my chin as tears fill my eyes, slowly rolling down my cheek until they fall onto my pillow. I don’t understand what happened tonight, my emotions are so tremulous I have no idea what I’m feeling.

Griff told me that he’d pull me back if I started to pull too far away. Was that kiss his way of reeling me back in? He said that was how a Sinner kissed. Was he just giving me a piece of home, reminding me of my roots as I spread my wings with a guy so far from a Sinner it’s ridiculous to even try to compare the two?

Pain stabs behind my ribs and I clutch at my chest over my heart. He wouldn’t play with my emotions like that, he wouldn’t manipulate me like that, would he? But if that kiss wasn’t his way of reminding me of my heritage, or my home, what was it?

Anger builds inside of me, but I push it away.

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