totally and desperately in love with the broken, complicated fae in front of me.
“No,” he said firmly, and my heart unclenched a bit from the confidence in his answer. “I was a boy when I loved her, I scarcely knew the meaning. And now…”
“And now what?” I asked him, my insides fluttering with hope about what he was about to say.
“And now I know I never knew what love was…until you.”
“You love me?” I whispered, because sometimes it was hard to believe that was possible, that one person, let alone three, could have those kinds of feelings for me. I’d gone my whole life without feeling any kind of love.
And I didn’t want to trust it.
But his lips were right there.
“You own me,” he whispered. “I’m beginning to think there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you, even if it damned me and everything else in the world to do it.”
My breath hitched as he leaned closer to me and then stopped.
“Kiss me,” he demanded, but it was more beseeching than it was anything else.
“Seth,” I whispered, unsure.
His lips closed over mine then, silencing my fears. His tongue dipped in sweetly, shallowly, teasing me. Melting me. When he pulled away, I felt lightheaded. Just then, it didn’t feel like we were in a dark cell, chaos bound to descend at any minute. It didn’t feel like most days, all I felt was hate and hurt from him.
It felt like we were stealing a little bit of peace.
And I wanted that so bad.
He pulled back and looked at me, a silent question in his gaze. I responded by pressing my lips against his once more. My mouth sealed over his, a sweet, slow, desperate dragging of lips. When we finally pulled away from each other, we were both breathing heavily.
“Please,” I murmured, weirdly hoping that he hit the guard hard enough that he would be out for a while. Because this was happening. I felt like I’d been waiting for this moment forever.
“Tell me what you want me to do?” he asked, his voice slightly shaking. “It’s been a long time, and this…this means so much more than anything I can remember.”
“Kiss me again.”
“Is that all?”
I grabbed his head and pulled him to me, losing myself in the taste and scent of him, his skillful kisses unravelling me further. He pulled away and slid his mouth down my neck, licking and sucking until I wriggled against the sensation.
“I’ve been craving you since the moment I saw you,” he murmured.
The craving he spoke about had overwhelmed me too. I had a confusing need for this fae to hold and complete me, even though I’d been fighting this feeling for months.
Giving in to the longing, I winded a hand around his neck, stroking his hair. Seth made a soft noise in his throat and shifted closer. I ran my tongue along his bottom lip, and he responded with a fierce kiss, our teeth almost colliding as our tongues pushed against each other. Our hearts thumped in rhythm, matching the way our lives had somehow collided together.
However much I told myself that this wasn’t what I wanted, that anything with the four of them wasn’t what I wanted…my heart seemed to have other ideas.
Seth’s stubbled face scratched at mine, and I welcomed the feel of it. I trembled…the heat we were creating made me feel like we were about to explode, shoot off into the stars that I hadn’t seen in what felt like forever.
I pulled away and touched my mouth a little in disbelief that this was happening as I met the eyes of the male who had somehow stolen a part of my soul and given me part of his in return.
“You’re it for me, Selena,” he said softly.
I was distracted by the sensations I felt just then. The way his body felt against mine, his soft breaths mingling with mine. “You’re already in my heart and head. I’ve spent months trying to get rid of you, and you won’t leave,” I whispered.
His fingers tightened for a moment as a tremor rushed through his body, like he couldn’t believe what I was saying.
And I couldn’t believe what I was saying either. Maybe the loss of my power had made me defective.
He led me over to his cot and sat down in front of me, and it said a lot for the moment that I didn’t care that the guard was tucked under it. Today, I was wearing the hideous prison uniform that