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“If I touch you, I’ll explode into full-blown madness.”
My heart hammers hard in my chest.
His voice gentles just slightly. “If I don’t touch you…”
“What will happen?” I ask in a whisper.
“The same.”
I work down a swallow and ask, “So, what will you do?”
He flinches. “I’ve been trying not to touch you. Was trying to stay away, not sure what would happen when I saw you. Then you went looking for me and I saw how upset you were on the security footage in the hallway when you thought I was with another woman.”
I nod slightly.
“So I tracked you. To the soup place.”
I nod again.
“Smelled your perfume. Saw your face. Looked at you…”
I wait.
He moistens his lips. “And I knew the time apart, the counseling, the meditation, the medication… they didn’t help.”
My heart is about to take flight, leave my body; it’s pounding that fast.
“At all. Because I want to fucking devour you. I want you, maybe even more than before.”
He’s so close. His face is just inches from mine. His hands are pressed to the wall just inches from my body.
Despite the chill in his gaze, I feel the radiation of his body heat, and it’s like it’s caressing my skin.
I bite my lip and tentatively reach for his face. He backs up as if I’ve got a communicable disease.
His nostrils flare.
I take a step forward.
“Chloe…” he warns.
“Derek,” I whisper and reach for his jaw. He steps back out of my reach.
“I’m scared, bunny,” he whispers.
“Why are you scared?”
“They didn’t fix me, baby.”
“I was scared, too. But what you just said… it helped.”
“I don’t wanna hurt you anymore, Chloe.”
“Then don’t hurt me anymore, Derek.”
His gaze softens just a little as his eyes travel my face.
I step closer and reach for his jaw again. This time he doesn’t stop me.
