My fingers came up to trace it as he almost shuddered to me. Almost as if it pained him. My heart tugged at the thought of hurting him and for the first time, I saw why. "Elodie-" "How did I die?" It was a question I never imagined would ever leave my lips and yet asking it seemed to cause him a
Grey's POV In the two years since I last felt her lips collide against mine, nothing had changed. Not the passion or the build-up, not the sparks or the inferno that blazed between us. Included in the everlasting effects of Elodie Carson was the fact being in her orbit meant engraving myself so dee
"My...my family didn't agree with it. We eloped and ran...I have the money in here...We were just trying to get out of New York." I was impressed with how believable she made every word. Hell, if I had been uninvolved with her, I would have believed it myself. "If that's true...then go get it." I
Elodie's POV It's funny the things you don't care to remember. It's often the same things we take for granted. The smell of your favorite coffee in the morning to the names of streets you've known since childhood. Even the mindless path through an apartment you never felt anything but resentful for
"So what's first?""The office building. It's apartments now." I nodded, nothing coming to mind about the former place. Instead, it was just another blank space I was frustrated to have to fill. "But right now...there's something I want to know..." He asked before wiping the corner of my mouth with
The answer came when he parked the car at the edge of a campground. Hidden beneath a selection of trees with low branches, he turned to back it up and set it still before shutting off the engine. "I saw some blankets-" I pounced. Unabashed and needy, I came over to his lap and he accepted me willin
"I want to be how you like. In any position. Every position. For hours...For-""Stop...please..." He breathed deeply while throwing his head on the seat behind him. "Touch me, Grey." It was this single instruction that sent his fingers inside my panties and against me. He found my aching pulse as i
Grey's POV Regret from weakness kept me awake last night. I replayed every moment in my mind in such repetition that I was throbbing until she woke up against me. Each time, I thought of how I should have pulled away and denied my desperations that could cloud her judgment when the memories returne
Grey's POV “I had this entire plan to go to dinner and then the boardwalk. I’d even rehearsed what to say at least a thousand times today…But I realized that when you’ve lived through what we have, the promises were already there. To me, a ring a no ring, yes or a no, my heart is and always will be
Elodie's POV SIX MONTHS LATER I'd already been waiting three hours after his meeting and my patience was too thin to test. He'd been acting shifty all day, almost as if he was hiding something. In fact, I knew he had been with the way he shuffled away from me whenever I tried to look at the screen
"I swear to God if I survive this I am going to become a demanding girlfriend." I grinned at the title she gave herself that I loved hearing, even in anger. Maybe even more so. "I will do everything with a smile. Now please, baby, you have to go." She sighed before standing. Leaning over me with a
Grey's POV I wasn't lying when I told her it was a risk. Not only to dance with death but in the return. Knowing if I were to wake as a human that it would be without the strength needed to protect her from the elements now out of my control, I felt more vulnerable than being formerly encaged in si
"It was a risk, but I had a feeling it would pay off to bet on you.""What are talking about?""Kinsey explained how she was able to become a human after I killed her the first time. Tied to Aslan's line, he gave his life as Alden had done for you. Since you were the one to kill me...I was able to c
Elodie's POVI never wanted to be one of those girls dependent on anyone. But losing someone like Grey Alluna was as if the sky no longer held stars, the gravity was purposeful but hollow in my heart and my head, and the oxygen I was forced to take was more painful than needed. I took mindless step
"Now, I'm giving you your punishment." I came down on her as I had done over a decade ago, teeth sinking into her neck, as she whimpered beneath me. When she would awaken again, it would be in a transition once again. Born a wolf, she never had to feel that painful shift between human and beast, the
Grey's POV It wasn't the abrupt silence of the crowd or the taste of the blood fading from my tongue that returned me to my humanity. It wasn't even the pull of her pleas dragging that part of me to the surface in a painful lurch. It was the sound of her heart accepting death without regret. The wa
"You smell so sweet." His voice had even changed. Where a smokiness existed behind some words now came a thick brutality. It was almost demonic. "How I've never fed on you before is a wonder I won't force myself to take for much longer. But I like a chase..." He released me with my broken hand and