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“You’re crazy, bruja.”
“You bring out the very worst in me.” Savina pointed a finger my way. “You listen to me now, and you listen well. I already told you that I’m not one of your little—”
I smashed my lips against hers, stealing her words. I cupped the side of her face with my unbitten hand and coaxed her into the kiss. At first, she didn’t budge. She just sat there like a statue, unable to move. But as my lips moved against hers, I suddenly felt her return the kiss too.
She tasted just as heavenly as I had remembered. Her tongue moved against mine in a sensual dance. Unlike our other kisses before, this one didn’t have the same ferocious fire, but it still had the kind of passion that gripped your soul.
I felt her in every fiber of my body. She was my undoing in all the best and worst ways possible. She titled my world on its axis and rearranged everything in it. And I would not have had it any other way.
Our lips molded together perfectly. We fit together like we were made for each other. Her hand fisted my shirt, pulling me in even closer. I remained mindful that she was still tied up to the machines and had tubes running through her.
We pulled apart, gasping for air. My lungs complained against my ribcage, trying to take in as much oxygen as possible.
I pressed my forehead against hers, my thumb stroking her cheek gently. Her eyes remained closed, but the flush in her cheeks deepened.
Even with her long brown hair wild from the sleep she had been under and the bags under her eyes, she had never looked more beautiful. No, actually, that was a lie. There was a moment she looked beautiful as ever, and that was while I was fucking her.
I drew away from her, my hand still cupping her cheek. “I worry about you when you’re not at my side, Savina. I can’t protect you when you refuse to be near me.”
She peeled her eyes open and stared at me with those milky eyes of hers. I had never thought I could grow to love this shade of brown. Brown eyes had simply been brown eyes before her. But hers reminded me so much of autumn, when the leave changed color and the seasons melded into one another.
Savina was still lost in our kiss. A small cloud of lust and passion glazed over her eyes.
“No one said you had to worry about me, Andres. I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself.”
My voice didn’t even sound like my own. It was far too thick and coated with whatever emotion permitted from my chest. I was never like this before her. But I guess that was what happened when someone made a home in your heart. And man, if that realization didn’t terrify me to my bones.
I set my jaw in place, my own irritation rising from her stubbornness. Why did she always have to make things so difficult?
“Does this look like you’re capable of taking care of yourself? Does it? You almost died, Savina. You skirted past death by the skin of your teeth. Do you not get that?”
She opened her mouth to speak, but I cut her off.
“You mean something to me, Savina.” I had no idea where I was going with this, but I was just going to roll with whatever came out of my mouth. “I know you feel this thing between us. It’s more than just lust and sex. It’s more than just physical. There is something here, something real, raw and fucking terrifying. I’m done running away from it. I’m done denying seeing you in a hospital bed doesn’t terrify me. I’m done making excuses for why I shouldn’t feel something for you, because I do. I feel a lot for you, Savina. Against my better judgment and free will, I feel something very deep for you.”
I loved the woman, but judging from the flash of pain that moved in her eyes I knew that she wasn’t’ready to hear that just yet.
By the time I was done, all the irritation and malice had melted away from her face. Her usual sharp features softened and her eyes held mine.
She didn’t speak, she didn’t say anything at all. She just stared at me with those eyes of hers that were kryptonite. She could ask me for anything and I would never deny her. Anything except for me to not feel what I did for her.
I was a man who knew what he wanted. And when I had my sight set on something, I went after it with full force, and I didn’t stop until it was mine.
She was mine on paper, but now I wanted everything she had to offer. Her soul, her mind… Her heart.
I wanted all of her.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Savina’s POV
“No.” Andres held a spoon to my mouth filled with granola and yogurt. “Do I need to pry your mouth open, Savina?”
I glared at him. “You’re treating me like a child.”
“You’re behaving like one,” he countered, with the spoon waiting in front of my mouth. “Open your mouth before I force-feed this to you.”
It had been a few hours since my husband had dropped his bombshell confession. Had I been expecting that from Andres? No, not at all. The man had made it very clear how he felt about me. So, to now hear him tell me that he… cared for me was a little terrifying.
