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In a cell at the bottom of a yacht we were trapped within, I held the girl who was younger than me. We were on the floor, her naked body cuddled to mine, hoping my body could offer her the warmth and comfort that Lorenzo had denied us. Her tragic tears broke my heart more than the broken skin on my back.
“Where am I?” the young one asked.
Since I had been here, there had been many brought in who had been ‘sampled’ and then sold. I hadn’t seen the sun for some time, even though the large boat sailed from one coast to another.
When I had yet to answer, she cried, “What will happen to me?”
Her future might be even bleaker than my own, so I rocked her and began to hum.
It was an unspoken answer that even the naïve understood. Her arms tightened around me. “Please sing it.”
I sang lyrics that screamed of our injustice and how much I was fighting to not drown in all the life-threatening and brutal sorrow.
We both froze when the door creaked open—
I woke. The motel room was dark, but I easily spotted Lynx when my eyes fluttered open. The sight of him leaning against the closed door had me sighing like the luckiest girl in the world. “Hi.”
I had woken up when he left the room earlier, but after pulling his pillow close so I could smell him, I fell right back to sleep. Now the real thing was so close.
There was no missing his wide, rounded shoulders moving as he raised his hand and covered his mouth. Quietly saying, “Babe,” his stare locked on me.
Those grey eyes… Beaming glass-like orbs that were so light it was hard to be sure where the color began or ended as I let them entrance me. Taking in all their magic was like watching a mystical creature deciding how he was going to consume me whole.
Would I have still fallen in love with Lynx had he not been so fantastically gorgeous?
Most definitely.
His magnetic spirit would have eventually captured me. Now, the Universe didn’t have time for Lynx and me to take it slow. It needed us to rely on our primal instincts to bond us at the speed of light. Bringing two dominant forces together—so they could use their past horrid experiences to change lives for the better for all the years to come—was a complicated challenge.
What was developing between Lynx and me could only be understood by those who had been charred by Hell’s flames, while still being capable of lifting their stubborn chins and flipping off the Devil.
Before I knew what I was doing, I was sitting up with my feet finding the carpet and my walk finding him and all the weight his strong shoulders would carry for me.
His hand, covering his mouth, slowly came down as I reached up, my fingers brushing his long blond hair to the side. To keep Lynx under my spell, I softly asked, “You okay?”
With our stare deeply connected, his full lips parted, he said nothing.
I rested my hands on his bare chest. “Is there anything I can do?”
His brows pinched as he kept peering down, studying me. “How can you be such a dream for me while I stand here in a nightmare?”
Softly, I replied, “Nightmares only have power while we sleep.” I touched his face. “You’re awake. And you’re not standing here alone.”
He gaped at me for a long moment… “Is it too soon to tell you I love you?”
He was setting my heart free. “Only to those who can’t see love for what it truly is. One soul greatly appreciating another.”
His dark eyelashes shadowed his glassy irises. “My soul appreciates you more than you may ever know.”
The sincerest smile crossed my face. “Always saying the best things.”
His bewildered expression faded into one full of regret. “I have something to say that is far from the best.”
I may not have known Lynx for long, by any standards, but I already knew him well enough to have sensed his heavy heart. “I trust you.”
His worry deepening, Lynx’s hand took hold of my neck. “Elle.”
Needing his touch, I covered his hand with mine. “You need to trust that I can handle whatever you need to tell me.”
