THALIA
His lips are on mine.
For a long second, that’s the only thing I can think of. Nothing coherent, no fear or anything else. Just the fact that Rael is kissing me… and I’m letting him.
No, I wasn’t just letting him. I’m kissing him back with the same hunger and desire. Now, I realized just how much restraint he had placed between us last time. But this time, he was no longer fighting himself, no longer hesitant, and it was almost like I was being devoured alive.
I feel it in the way his mouth moves against mine, in the unsteady breaths we both catch in the middle when we part a bit just to catch some air, and in how urgent both our movements were.
A part of me was still terrified of falling so deeply again, but Rael is now actively reaching me through our bond, urging me to let g
