Obsession (Steel Brothers Saga 2)

I gulped down the bite, took a quick drink of water, crossed to the door, and opened it.

Chapter Five

Talon

She just stood there, looking luscious in those damned Daisy Duke shorts of hers and a David Bowie T-shirt. I’d have thought she was too young to be a Bowie fan. Whatever. The word “Bowie” was stretched out across her delicious tits.

Had it just been three nights ago that I had kicked her out of my house and out of my life? She stood, her hands on her hips, her ruby lips glistening, her golden-brown hair tumbling over her shoulders, and my groin tightened. How had I ever thought I could live without her?

I loved her. I’d had a hard time admitting that to Ryan last night, because I had actually been admitting it to myself. But did I? Really? I didn’t even know what love was, at least not this kind of love. Perhaps I was feeling something else entirely. I probably didn’t possess the capacity to love.

Still, the words “I love you” were on the tip of my tongue as I looked into her silvery-blue eyes.

“What do you want, Talon?”

Her. I wanted her. Just seeing her again made my dick hard, but I couldn’t just grab her and kiss her, not after how I’d treated her.

“Are you going to actually speak, or are you going to just stand there with your mouth hanging open?”

Then again…

I stepped through the doorway, gripped her shoulders, pulled her to me, and pressed my lips to hers.

She opened for me instantly, as I knew she would. We couldn’t resist each other. Was she as obsessed with me as I was with her?

Smack! She broke the kiss and pushed me away from her. Hard. My back hit the wall right next to the door that was still open.

“Stop it,” she said, her eyes on fire. “That isn’t going to work this time.”

“It worked every other time,” I said.

“Every other time you hadn’t kicked me out of your house and out of your life. This is bullshit, Talon. Nothing more than bullshit. Now I asked you once before. What are you doing here?”

What was I doing there? I couldn’t answer her when I didn’t know. All I knew is that I had to see her, touch her, know she still existed in the universe. “Do you…want to go to dinner?”

She pointed to half a sandwich and a takeout bag from Rita’s sitting on the bed. “I’ve already got dinner, and I’d like to get back to it. So please leave.”

I turned and closed the door to her hotel room, locking the deadbolt.

“I told you, leave.” Her full lips trembled.

God, I wanted her. My body reacted to her very presence. I quivered before her, the effect as unsettling as it was arousing. How had I been so stupid to think that kicking her out of my home would make the desire go way?

I hadn’t been that stupid. I’d known I’d never be free of her.

Could she help me? Could she heal me?

No one could heal me. I was a broken man, a shattered soul. But when I was with Jade, in her arms, her lips on mine, I became someone different. Someone almost…special. Special didn’t make me any less broken or any less shattered, but it gave me something I’d never had before.

Hope.

“I said leave,” she repeated.

I owed her that much. I would go, and I wouldn’t come back until she invited me. I turned toward the door, my gaze zeroing in on the peephole at eye level. Please, Talon. Leave her in peace. She deserves that. Hell, she deserves the best.

But my feet were stuck in blocks of concrete.

“Run, boy. Run.”