Condemned by Soosie E Nova

Author:Soosie E Nova [Nova, Soosie E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Danica

Leo locked the door behind Schilling. He rested against it, grinning shyly at me, his hands jammed in his pockets, his shoulders hunched.

“I’ve imagined this moment so often. It worked out kinda different in my head.”

“What, you rescued me from the bad men and tore me out of my nightmare in a hail of bullets and glory?”

“No,” he laughed, letting some of the tension fall from his creased face, “we met in a coffee shop. You walked in, recognised me instantly and agreed to marry me on the spot. You’d been hiding and all the terrible things I’d imagined you going through had never happened.”

“Oh. My imagination is way darker than yours. I jumped straight to bullets and glory. Marriage came after we’d killed everyone who’d ever hurt me.”

“Can we skip the killing bit? Beating to a bloody pulp I can do but death row isn’t somewhere I plan on visiting again.”

“Deal.”

He made his way across the open plan cabin, shoving me back against the oak panelled kitchen counter. His arms either side of my body caged me in his embrace. The heat from his body soaked through my thin cotton work shirt. My core burned. God, I’d needed this for so long, my skin ached for his soft lips.

“There’s so much I want to say,” he breathed, his head dipped, his lips a whisper away from mine, “I don’t know where to start.”

“Start here,” I whispered, wrapping my hands behind his head, tangling my fingers into his thick golden curls, pulling him close.

There was no plexiglass forcing us apart, no monsters lurking in the dark. My legs shook like saplings in a hurricane. My heart spiked. His soft lips met mine, his kiss hard and needy. He parted my lips with his tongue, delving it into my mouth. Oh, God did he taste good, like hot coffee on a winter’s morning. And he was mine. Always.

“Have I rescued you yet?” He smiled.

“Not yet,” I sighed.

Since Leo, my sex life had been one of violence, agony and humiliation. I’d been dirtied beyond redemption. It took years of therapy to realise those things had been done to me, not by me. There’d been one guy. I’d been so desperate to reclaim my sexuality, erase my past, I’d have settled for anyone, even the weird guy from the doughnut shop. It was an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. At the slightest hint of intimacy I froze, every touch pained me, burning my flesh like acid. He tried to be patient, I tried to relax around him at the end of it all it was just wrong. He wasn’t Leo. I knew then, deep inside, only Leo could snatch away the horrors haunting me.

He cupped my ass, lifting me from the floor. My legs wrapped around his waist, my fingers gripped his hair. He growled into my mouth, our lips locked together, our kiss insatiable.

“We do this right, this time,” he said, carrying me towards a bedroom.

“With you, it could never be anything but.

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