s*x in death
"But god help me, Elowen, being this close to you and not touching you is a different kind of death. Silas is out there. The Board is coming. But right now, in this Dead Zone... it’s just us and the Debt."
He leaned in, his mouth hovering just a hair’s breadth from mine. The sexual tension was so thick it felt like a physical barrier. Every instinct in my body screamed for him to close the gap, to let the world burn if it meant one minute of being his.
But as his lips touched mine—a soft, tentative press of heat—the mark on my wrist flared a warning red.
The Shadow between us didn't lash out at Silas's soldiers. It lashed out at us. A crack of black lightning threw us apart, slamming Juli