Only You (Sweet Torment 2)

His skin was pressed against mine. All his heat and warmth wrapping around me. His weight felt good. Like I was protected. He cupped my face and stared at me.

He said something in Greek that sounded so beautiful, it brought that sting from behind my eyes to water dancing along my lower lashes. Then he repeated it in English.

“Paige, I see you, and you are beautiful.”

I threw my arms around him and kissed him hard. So much I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t want to. Didn’t want this moment to end. The ice in my chest was melting. Piece by piece and Leo was setting it on fire and leaving something warm in its place.

Hope.

It was a dangerous thing. All I could do was pray he didn’t take it back. Didn’t shatter the small ounce of that feeling.

I kissed him harder, faster. Hugging him closer and lifting my body so every square inch of skin could feel his.

Raising my hips, and locking my feet around him, I did anything and everything I could do to keep him close.

I gasped loud when the last space between us was extinguished and he slid inside of me.

Loving how he felt, like it completed something in me that I never knew was truly broken until he came and made me whole.

“Paige,” he groaned my name, and thrust deeper.

I arched into him, wanting more. Needing more. Running my fingers through his hair, I pulled him down for another kiss. He sounded like he was in pain and growled against my lips, pushing himself up to draw away.

“No,” I said, but it came out mute because I couldn’t find my voice. “Don’t leave.”

It was all I could think. All I could beg for. But the words didn’t hold a volume because they were too vulnerable to say.

“I’m sorry, Paige,” he said.

Opening a drawer from the bedside table, he pulled out a condom and quickly put it on. Relief hit that he wasn’t leaving. I hadn’t realized we missed a step. The moment was too intense and I had gotten caught up.

He sheathed himself in the latex and positioned himself back on top of me and just barely breeched my entrance but held still to look at my face.

“I’m clean, but I should have been more careful,” he said.

I gave him a shaky smile because my body was so on fire I could hardly take it. “I’m clean too, but I’m not on the pill. I um . . .” I glanced away. “I haven’t needed to be since it’s been a long time.”

He kissed me and slid all the way inside, effectively shutting off my breath and pulling me closer.

“Please don’t stop,” I said.

“Never,” he promised. And that was what it was. A promise. That would surely end in two weeks.

My body burned, climbing higher and higher, and Leo was right there with me. We came together and all I wanted was our never to turn into never-ever.

Chapter Twenty

Paige?”

Kyros walked up the steps of the Main House, meeting me on the porch.

Surely there was no way he could have seen me coming from Leo’s bedroom, right? I knew it was getting late, but after my nightmare incident, I didn’t want to spend the night with Leo. Not yet. Not after so much was off-kilter with me already. Like my feelings.

“Hi,” I said, wanting to come up with a reason I was leaving the house so late, but deciding against it. Instead I tried for a friendly conversation. “You’re out late.”

He nodded. “I spent some time in Albany this evening, and I’m just now getting back. I wanted to check on a couple things at the office.” I smiled and nodded, and just when I thought I could leave with no more niceties, Kyros had other ideas. “I know you and my cousin have a fling going on.”

I opened my mouth to tell him that was none of his business but he stopped me.