My Forbidden Fruit
"I thought I did. Until I knew love doesn't feel like drowning. It doesn't taste like poison."
The breath I'd been holding escaped, stuttering unevenly. "So what does it feel like?"
His eyes met mine, hot, unremitting. His thumb swept along my jaw, turning my face up to him. "Like this," he whispered, before kissing me again—slowly, purposefully, the type of kiss that took and calmed, scorched and healed simultaneously.
The shower continued to run, but I hardly registered it. I was sensing him, his truth, his darkness combining with mine. And yet, even as his mouth devoured my fears, Amelia's shadow clung to the periphery of the steam, refusing to dissipate.
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