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I leaned in closer on pure impulse, never taking my focus off her vacant, hollow eyes, looking for anything to hold on to. Seeking out the woman I was falling in love with, or at this point…
I was in love with.
I felt her lightly suck in a breath before I lightly brushed my lips against hers until I remembered where her mouth may have been, and I pulled away, growling. I was teetering on the edge. I could sense my resolve shattering. My thoughts were raging war with one another, right along with hers.
Both of us lost in the world we created for ourselves.
I thought she needed me as much as I needed her. I watched her with a captivated regard, wanting to know what the hell she was thinking.
Feeling.
Love proved to be blinding and, at times, cruel. You only saw what you wanted to see. Only picturing the good and never the bad.
I knew I’d always have demons lurking inside me… I just never imagined she’d end up being one of them.
CHAPTER
TWENTY-NINE
LUKE
I was the first to break our connection. I could no longer bear to see the woman staring back at me.
My heart.
My mind.
My sanity couldn’t take it anymore.
My thoughts swung back and forth along with my emotions—I was suffocating in them. It didn’t help that she gripped my soul like a fucking vise.
My safe house was eerie and silent, her scent masking the air all around me. Fueling the uncertainty for what was to come.
It was thriving.
Living.
Breathing inside me.
This was the only way—it was my only choice.
Even though I intently stared at her, I didn’t say a word. I just sat in my office chair in the room's shadow, with my elbow leaning against the armrest as I rubbed my fingers back and forth across my lips with the drink I made earlier in my hand.
I thought I could drink her away.
Once again, I was lost in my own purgatory in a way I’d never been before. Her unruly hair draped over her gorgeous face, regardless of the shiner on her cheek and the cut on her lip. I could see her through the slits of the strands in her hair.
I’d taken off her cloak and mask. Now she was just sitting there with her tied arms behind her back and in nothing but lingerie. In a normal setting, this would probably turn me the fuck on…
Who the hell am I kidding?
I was turned on.
She was still so damn sexy, and it didn’t help that I was into bondage play. Despite the darkness in the room, she could still see my dark, cold, beady eyes penetrating deep into hers, only burning a deep reaction within my core. The bourbon I started drinking only added to the way I watched her.
It was only then I realized she wasn’t looking at me.
She was looking through me.
