Touch of Hell by Holly Roberds

Author:Holly Roberds [Roberds, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ToastPig Publishing
Published: 2020-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

17

Krystan was still asleep when I parked outside the purple house. She’d passed out the moment after I started the van. I opened the passenger side door, unbuckled her seatbelt and picked her up. Cradling her, I kicked the door shut behind me. In her sleep, her arms curled around my neck.

Even a couple months ago, I wouldn’t have been able to hold her like this. I was surprised by how light she was. I also suspected she’d been eating less to save money for the house.

I couldn’t think about what would happen to this place right now. Finagling the key into the lock, I managed to not drop Krystan while unlocking the house. Opening the door, I walked into a chillingly empty, dark hallway and was glad her warm body was in my arms. She woke up when I was halfway up the stairs.

“I can walk,” she said as I got to the top. I set her down on her feet. Those big, haunted eyes stared at the closed door of her gran’s.

“We should get cleaned up,” I said, picking up her wrist. The blood had dried but it could still get infected. As if not recognizing me for a moment, Krystan ran her cold fingers on either side of the cut on my throat. I swallowed hard under her soft touch, causing my throat to sting from the movement.

We took turns showering, then disinfected and bandaged each other’s wounds. Krystan brushed her teeth and gargled mouthwash a couple times. When it was time to go to bed, we hovered outside the bathroom. Since the kids were at the neighbor’s house, I started toward the guestroom, which was on the opposite end of the hall from Krystan’s room.

Her hand around my wrist stopping me. “Stay with me tonight?”

When I turned back to her, my breath caught in my throat. The look in her eye was desperate, broken, and pleading. Krystan never asked. She demanded, she took, she possessed whatever she wanted but here she was asking me, the fear I would say no, written plainly in her eyes.

With a nod, I followed her into her bedroom. She peeled off her clothes until she was down to her tank top and panties. Black silk with white skulls on them, complete with red bow at the top, of course. I took off my own clothes until I was down to my blue plaid boxers and crawled into bed after her. In an instant, she’d molded her body to mine.

I clenched my jaw, desire, frustration, and grief snaking throughout me in different waves. Fortunately, my hips were angled away from her, so she had no idea how much holding her was killing me. But oh god I wanted this. Holding her was like holding a live flame, and even though she burned me, I was stupidly addicted to her warmth. Maybe she was right. Maybe she would destroy me. She’d certainly taken her shots, and they’d ripped right through me.

After laying for what must have been ten minutes but felt like an hour, she was snoring.

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