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