Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

Author:Debra Anastasia [Anastasia, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781936305940
Amazon: 1936305941
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Published: 2011-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

26

Braille Sundress

COLE HELD KYLE AS gently as he could manage. He wanted to pull her inside of him. Kneeling with her in the church had saved him. He realized now that she was his angel. There would be no denying her again.

“Kyle, will you come with me?” He whispered the words against her forehead between kisses. His hands traveled over her back as if the Bible were written in Braille on her sundress.

“I’m your shadow now, Cole. I’ll be where you are.” Kyle smiled, her eyes steady on his.

He stood and held out his hand. She took it.

Kyle gasped as he swooped her into his arms. One of her hands touched his cheek as the other settled onto his bare chest.

The trip to his quarters was not smooth. He had to stop to kick open the door by the altar. At his bedroom, he awkwardly used his foot to unlatch the lever door handle. But he wouldn’t put her down. Cole nudged the door shut with his rump.

He turned with Kyle so she could be his hands. “Lock it,” he murmured.

She pushed the little button until it clicked. He set her on her feet, and she leaned against the closed door.

“I need to tell you some things,” Cole began, gearing up for confession.

Kyle smoothed his hair. “No. No, you don’t.”

He continued as if she’d said nothing. “Kyle, I’m sorry for my past sins—especially because they may offend you. Help me to do penance, to do better, and to avoid anything that might lead me to sin.” Cole paused to take a breath, then added, “Amen.” He needed the ritual of prayer to make sense of the changes he was about to implement.

“Don’t pray to me. Don’t pray to me!” Kyle said, her eyes widening in alarm. “We’re in this together. I’ve done things wrong too. We’re human, Cole. We’ll still make mistakes, but now we’ll always have each other to hold when it hurts.” Kyle’s eyes filled with tears.

“It hurts now. I killed those men. How could I…” Cole’s words failed him.

“I killed those men, Cole, before you even got there. How could I tempt them…” Kyle trailed into silence as well.

Cole hugged her to him again. He listened to her breathe and felt calmer.

“We have to go somewhere far from here.” Her lips moved on his chest, tickling the skin there. “Where do we go, Cole?”

“You know in your heart that those men were wrong in the way they treated you. You know that.” Cole’s hands became two tight clenches of anger. “And they had no idea what lives inside me, what I can do.”

“I know what you do to me,” Kyle said, finding his eyes. “It’s everything right, honest, and good.” She stood on her tiptoes and kissed his lips.

“Kyle, I’m intense and devoted, and I need a lot of direction just to get through my day.”

“Cole, I’m impulsive and devoted and hopeless. I have a filthy mouth, and I don’t see it cleaning up anytime soon.”

“I would like to make love to you.

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