The Complication by Arthurs Nia

Author:Arthurs, Nia [Arthurs, Nia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2019-07-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

IMANI

When one sense was taken away, the others rose to the plate and took up the slack. Darkness clung to the back of my eyelids. I couldn’t rely on my sight to guide me, to show me.

Still, I could feel Elliot.

His presence hovered over me. Warm. Magnetic. Shallow breaths hit my face, a testament to his wavering restraint. Thick fingers stroked my cheek, light as butterfly wings. My skin, lips, everything crackled.

The seconds ticked by, moving too fast and too slow. I was stuck in la-la-land. Nothing made sense except my rising urge to taste something that was so forbidden it had to be sweet.

His lips pressed against my forehead. Chaste. Innocent. My head lulled back slightly from the force of it. Elliot moved one hand to brace my neck and keep me in place.

I heard his shoes shuffling against the tiles. His fingers scraped the collar of my T-shirt, a rasping sound.

Thick breaths. Mine or his? I didn’t even know.

All I knew was how badly I wanted this. How hard my heart pounded. How desperately broken I would be if he didn’t follow through.

It was a hundred degrees in this kitchen. Was that from the stove or from us?

Elliot drew me up by the back of my neck. I lifted my head, waiting. His lips touched mine. Warmth shuttled up my spine, splicing through every atom, every nerve in my body. Light exploded behind my eyelids. Fire. Energy. Lust.

Elliot slid his free arm around my waist. Our bodies collided. He pulled back and attacked my lips again. His hunger swooshed over me, sending my brain into a tailspin.

I tasted the mint scent of his breath.

Smelled the tangy fragrance of his cologne.

A tear petered down my cheek. Because I wanted this. I wanted him. So badly. But I also wanted peace. I couldn’t have that if I ran to him and I couldn’t turn away.

So all I did was plant my feet firmly in this fleetingly beautiful moment. I slid my hands up the hills and valleys of his muscular arms, past his T-shirt sleeve, up his shoulders and into his silky, soft blond hair.

I kissed him like my life depended on it. Like every sip of his mouth was oxygen.

Elliot’s fingers rode up my back, stopping at the imprint of my bra where the hooks connected. His lips snapped away from mine, not so far that I couldn’t reach him but enough to reveal his disconnect.

He seemed hesitant to run past that band, as if my underwear was the line he didn’t want to cross. I found myself smiling, amused by his thoughtfulness that still managed to echo in the midst of passion.

“Mami…” he said, his voice husky with need. “I’d take you now. But I can’t. Not like this.”

I fell for him again. Right there. In that moment. Looking into his burning blue eyes that promised ecstasy, I felt an intense pain. A bomb had been set off in my soul, and it was primed to explode.

Leaving him would destroy me.

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