The Vow: House of Sin - Book Four by Naughton Elisabeth

Author:Naughton, Elisabeth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elisabeth Naughton Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

6

Natalie

I knew what I wanted. I knew what I needed to do to protect my heart and mind. But the instant Luc kissed me, I forgot everything but him.

This. The way we fit together. The feelings he stirred inside me when he pulled me in, when he consumed me, when he claimed me and reminded me just how perfect it was to be his...

All that rushed through me as his mouth moved over mine. The reason I’d kissed him faded from my memory. The anger that had spurred me to follow him to this mansion dissipated. The only thing that lingered was him.

This moment.

Us.

He drew back long before I was ready to let him go, and I was sure if he hadn’t been pressing me into the wall I’d have swayed. Blinking, I looked up into his mesmerizing eyes, unable to think, unable to speak, unable to do anything but hold on to his strength and an emotion I was suddenly terrified I’d never feel again.

A quote I’d read once in college filtered through my mind as our eyes held. One that said love was a fire. That eventually it disfigured everyone in its path. I wasn’t sure who’d said it, but it had stuck with me all these years because I’d believed it to be true. I’d seen love incinerate my parents. I’d lived through the scars after my ex had dumped me. I’d even witnessed it destroy Elena. But as I stared up at Luc in that dark corridor, something in the back of my mind whispered that fire doesn’t always consume.

Fire also purifies. It illuminates the darkness. And all those who rise from its ashes, stronger and more resilient, first have to endure the burn of its flames.

He let go of me and stepped back, breaking eye contact, sending a chill over my skin. Reaching for the edge of the mirror’s frame once more, he said, “Come on. They’re gone. Let’s go before anyone else comes down here.”

I didn’t know where the people I’d heard on the stairs had gone. I didn’t remember them passing us or moving through one of the doors in the hallway. All I could think about as I stepped through the hidden doorway and into some kind of secret passageway was Luc. That kiss. The connection between us that was still so powerful. And walking away from that—from him—for good.

He closed the door behind us, dousing the stone tunnel in darkness. My pulse ticked up, but seconds later, he flipped on the light from his phone, using it as a flashlight. With a muttered “Come on,” he stepped in front of me and led the way.

He didn’t take my hand. Didn’t try to touch me again. But my skin still warmed as if he were holding me. My lips tingled with the memory of that kiss. And my heart raced as indecision warred inside me, reason and logic in a bitter battle to keep me sane.

I wasn’t sure how long we walked,

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