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Finally, our mouths touch. My eyes snap tightly closed as I linger in place against his cold lips. Instinct takes hold of me and my lips purse, gently caressing his and sparking a warm bolt of lightning through my tongue. The feeling stays with me like a wisp of smoke traveling down my throat and wrapping around my heart like a warm ribbon.
I ease back to break the kiss. “What is that?” I ask, fear entering my voice.
“Shh,” is all Ari says as his palms cup my face and he kisses me back.
My pulse quickens even more as his icy touch thaws against my burning hot skin. I part my lips, seduced a little deeper, and he slowly coaxes them to move with this.
But still, fear settles in my gut. My lungs lurch for air. My eyes burn with tears. That warm ribbon grips my heart tighter and tighter but I’m far too powerless in his hands.
Somehow, I pull away from his grip. My back slams into the door and I put my hand to my mouth, either to keep him from it or to keep me from kissing him back — I can’t be sure.
Ari swallows hard, his dark eyes wild with shadows. “Tannis...”
“What did you do?” I ask, my voice breaking.
“Nothing.”
I clutch my chest as that ribbon slithers deep into my core. “Bullshit.”
He reaches for me. “Tannis—”
“Stay away from me.”
I shove at the front door and bolt inside, not even hesitating to kick it closed behind me. It’s only when I hear the latch do I realize the gravity of what I just did.
I slammed the door on a god.
Ah, shit.
“Honey?”
I look up, realizing that I’m still hunched over, gripping my chest. My mother stands in the foyer between me and the kitchen, her eyes heavy with concern.
“Are you all right?” she asks.
I stand up taller, feeling normal again. “I’m fine,” I say quickly.
She eyes the front door. “Where’s Ari?”
“He’s, um...” I press my tingling lips together. “He’s gone. Said he’d come back tomorrow.”
“Oh.” She nods. “All right, then.” She smiles. “Did you have fun? Where’d you go?”
“Just...” I swallow the words. Would she even believe me? “Out to dinner. Some new place downtown.”
She eagerly bounces her shoulders. “Well? What’d you talk about?”
“Actually, Mom...” I push off the door. “Can we talk about this later? I’m not feeling very well.”
“Been a big day, I suppose,” she says.
“Yeah.”
She steps forward and pushes my hair back behind my ear. “Go get some rest, honey,” she says. “We’ll be here when you’re ready.”
I nod, feeling those burning tears return but I don’t dare let them fall. “Uh huh.”
I rush up the stairs, charging as quickly as possible toward my room.
What the hell just happened to me? I felt something flowing from him into me — and it wasn’t just the thrill of a girl’s first kiss.
I lock my door behind me and put my back against it to catch my breath.
I feel him. Some deep, primal essence taking hold of me, crawling beneath my skin.
And I let it happen. I gave my lips to a god; a god who wants to claim me as his own.
And I’m not even sure I won’t do it again.
