i aa561f6720746f96 by Unknown

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Language: eng
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He shifted onto his back and turned his face toward her. “My father raped my mother.” His mouth twitched after he said it, as if it wanted to take back the words. “I was made from violence and pain, from the power of several men over one woman. She almost died giving birth to me, and then took her own life because I was a constant reminder of what had happened to her.”

“None of that is your fault.” She lifted her hand as if to touch him, then pulled it back.

“Are you afraid of me now?” he whispered.

“No.”

Her voice trembled, but he didn’t smell fear, and her hands were as warm as ever, lying on the blanket between them, an inch from his chest. His heightened Snake senses threatened to drown him in his awareness of her heat.

“Sura…”

Her breath caught, and he felt her skin chill. The passion in his voice had made her afraid—and not of his forgetting powers.

“Yes?”

He brushed his warm hand against her cold one. “I’ve never wanted to not hurt someone as much as I want to not hurt you.”

It was as close as he could come to a declaration of love. He could never have her, no matter what she felt, no matter what happened to his marriage. They were Snake and always would be.

Sura wove her fingers around his, and the heat under their skin flared. “What do we do?” She was whispering now as the rain turned to a drizzle.

“I don’t know.” Holding his breath, he lifted her hand to kiss her palm.

She let out a choked cry, then seized the front of his shirt and pressed her forehead to his. “I can’t do this,” she whispered, “be with you and not be with you. It makes me hate myself.”

“No.” His throat tried to cut off the words. “Hate me instead.” He brushed his lips over her cheek, feeling her jaw move as her mouth opened. He wanted to cover it with his own, but resisted, moving to kiss her fluttering lashes, then her forehead.

Sura stroked her smooth cheek against his stubbled one, breathing him in. The warm, rich scent of her desire drenched his mind, and his hands shook with the effort not to caress her body.

The rain strengthened into a roar, and he pulled Sura into a tight embrace. They clutched at each other, and for a moment he felt relief flow through him like a cold drink of water. Then the press of her against him became agony, and he nearly bit his tongue in half to suppress a groan of longing.

“I wish I could make us forget who we are,” he said. “Then we could find a place where there’s nothing between us.”

She pulled back to look at him, her nose almost touching his.

“Could we do that?” Her eyes turned sad. “Run away and leave everything and everyone we know?

Everyone who needs us?”

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