No Rest for the Wicked by Katherine Garbera

Author:Katherine Garbera [Garbera, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

It had started to rain. The kind of hard September downpour that was cold and biting. Sebastian took it as punishment for not leaving Celeste at the Waldorf. Instead, as paid for the gas he had pumped into the Bugatti and walked back to the car, he paused. The rain was heavy, but as he saw Celeste sitting in the front seat of the sports car, he couldn’t continue.

Adventure she kept saying and he kept thinking that he could do this. Keep her by his side and have fun with her without losing what was left of his soul.

He tipped his head back toward the sky, letting the rain pelt down on his face. He felt more confused now than he had been in years, and he if he were a wiser man he would walk away and leave her here. The keys were in the car; she could drive back to New York and find her way back to her normal life.

He felt her touch on his arm. She stood there next to him in the pouring rain and he saw the water on her face, feared that it might be tears.

“What are you doing?”

“Trying to justify this. Why did you come with me? Why didn’t you punch me like Kendra did?”

“Because I like this. I haven’t been with a man who made me feel alive in a long time.”

“This isn’t living, this is an adrenaline rush,” he said.

“Yes it is. And that’s what had been missing. All week long I’ve been trying to force myself out of my same, boring shell, but it only works when I’m with you.”

“How? This isn’t exciting.”

“You’re wrong,” she said, wrapping her arms around his shoulders she went up on tiptoe. And as carnal and electric as their last kisses had been, this one was sweet and passionate.

She moved her mouth slowly over his. Her tongue entered his mouth and seduced him with languid strokes. He wrapped his arms around her, holding her pressed to his body as the rain fell around them. The heat from her mouth and her slight frame warmed him all the way to the cold frost-bitten places of his soul. The places where he was very afraid he’d never feel anything again.

He knew then that he’d been fooling himself by pretending that anything he’d done since Judd had died had been an adventure. That it had involved danger or living. Because as he held Celeste in his arms and felt her mouth moving under his, he realized he was truly alive for the first time since he’d woke from that coma in the hospital.

That the emotions stirring to live inside of him weren’t an aberration or something to fear or run from, but they were the seeds of the future he’d been afraid to face.

He lifted his head from hers. Stared down into those eyes of hers, which were bright and wide. Filled with emotions that he knew she was afraid to admit she felt, because he was afraid too.

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