Finally. Oh, to finally be here.
Pulling away, I ran my hands over his shadowed jaw, mesmerized by every detail of him. I looked into his eyes and what I saw there took my breath away. So much need and desire. Gone was every last wisp of his skillful detachment and practiced indifference. He wanted me as much as I wanted him. I could gaze into those indigo eyes forever.
The way he was looking back at me made it all worth it. All of it. Every loss for this.
“You were worth dying for,” I breathed out.
He stroked my face, taking in all of me before kissing me with me again—the kind of kiss I could feel throughout my entire body. Holding my face in his hands so I couldn’t move from his attentions again, he kissed me possessively. Claiming me, finally, with no more denial.
My Gideon. My Ce
