The Pact by Karina Halle

Author:Karina Halle [Halle, Karina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, marriage, adult, contemporary, urban, friends to lovers, standalone
ISBN: 9781311179036
Publisher: Metal Blonde Books
Published: 2014-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

STEPHANIE

Linden leads me down the hallway to his first floor apartment, back to holding my hand again¸ and even though I’ve walked down past these white walls with the flashy gold apartment number plates and tiled floors a million times before, it all looks different now.

It looks new.

This is all so new.

We stop right outside his door and as he sticks the key in the slot, I blurt out, “What if this is a mistake?”

He pauses and slowly looks over his shoulder at me. “Do you think it’s a mistake?”

I chew on my lip for a moment and try and listen to my heart. Do I think this is a mistake?

“No,” I slowly say, my heart starting to race in response. “But it doesn’t mean I’m not scared.”

He unlocks the door, pushing it open an inch and then turns around to face me. His brow is furrowed, his eyes soft and searching. “Baby blue…it’s me.”

“I know,” I tell him. “But what if…what if it doesn’t work out?”

“It will work out,” he says but I don’t know if I share his confidence.

“I just don’t want it to blow up in our face, to ruin what we had. I don’t want to lose you.”

He reaches for my hand and pulls me to him. “You are not going to lose me,” he says, peering down at me. “I promise.”

I want to believe him so badly. I need to believe him. “What if you lose me?”

He smiles at me, his grip hard. “Then I’ll just hold on tighter.”

I’m pulled closer to him and he opens the door, ushering me inside.

All the lights are off save for one in his kitchen to the left. The apartment gleams in the low light, the floors dark, walnut brown wood, and the walls painted a dark grey. Everything seems more mysterious, more dangerous now. This is no longer the apartment of my friend, this is the apartment of a man I don’t fully know yet.

He shuts the door behind me and then takes a step toward me until I’m up against the back of the door. He places his hands on either side of my head, braced against the door, and stares down at me, his lips just inches from mine, our noses almost touching.

I don’t breathe. I don’t move. I just stare at his full lips, at his searing eyes as they want, want, want. I am aware of what a large man he is, suddenly, like it had never occurred to me before. His hands, his arms, his shoulders, his chest, his height. He’s just so big and I feel so small, so easily ravaged.

I want to be ravaged.

He leans in a millimeter until the side of his nose gently brushes against the side of mine. “This moment,” he says, his voice hoarse, and closes his eyes. “This moment.”

It is a moment. And before I can ponder just what kind of moment it is to him, he leans in and kisses me. It’s very soft, light, like feathers.

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