The kiss they’d shared had been playing over and over in Steele’s mind since this morning. It was burned into his brain, like a fire in his blood. All he’d been able to think about was kissing her again. About the softness of her lips beneath his and the small gasp she’d given when they’d parted and allowed him a taste of the sweetness within.
For that brief moment of time he’d felt like a man again rather than the monster he’d become. For that one tiny, shining moment, he’d move heaven and earth for her. He couldn’t keep her. He knew that. She was far too good for a creature like him. He was too broken, and the things he’d done… he didn’t deserve her. He hadn’t deserved someone like her even when he’d been a man.
So he definitely didn’t now.
But when he suddenly had her in his arms aga
