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I didn’t know why, but I wanted to stay lost in her eyes. I couldn’t look away because there was so much beauty in my catastrophic pain.She lured me in with her gaze, pulling every sentiment from my body as if it belonged to her.
Like we were the only two people in the world.
Like time stood still.
Like our relationship wasn’t based on anything but lies.
It felt like every passing second between us was another thought, another emotion, another memory of her for me. I was physically there with her, but my head was entirely elsewhere.
“Sloan Duchess Del Toro,” I whispered through my index and middle fingers, which continued to rub my lips. I needed something else to focus on besides her and what I was struggling with.
I wanted to move, but I couldn’t get my feet to stand.
My heart screamed for me to go to her although my body declared war, determined to ultimately win the internal battle erupting inside me when it came to her.
It awakened every last demon on my back.
Every demon living inside me.
Every soul I collected.
Except I surrendered to my hesitation for as long as I could, seeking refuge within myself, or else I feared I’d end up killing her, and I couldn’t bring myself to do that yet.
I remained a willing captive in her haunted composure, and she knew it, too.
The effect she always had on me.
I imagined she had the same effect on all the men she conned. Which was probably something her husband taught her to be—the perfect little whore for him.
Son of a bitch.
“You scared of me, baby?”
She arched an eyebrow. “Do you want me to be, baby?”
“You will be if you don’t start answering my questions.”
A hint of remorse passed through her eyes, but she blinked it away. Making me think I possibly imagined it, needing to cling to some sort of connection with her.
Well, to hell with reason.
With doubt.
With the unknown.
To hell with it all.
Including us.
My chest was rising and falling, my heart lying out in front of us as I started to walk toward her again. I felt as though I was making my way over to a stranger I could not run away from.
I waited, holding my breath with every last fiber of my being.
I couldn’t breathe the entire ten steps it took to get to her.
I knew because I counted.
It was the only way to keep myself from hurting her for playing me.
