Valerian locations my ft on the nice and cozy stone ground and ideas my chin up. I increase my eyes not sure what I’ll discover.

“You may have died, my little rose. I instructed you to keep away from the atrium. It’s not totally protected out right here.” His head dips and he locations a kiss on the nook of my lips. The heat of his physique presses in opposition to mine and I’m too starved for his contact to tug away like I ought to. My arms discover their manner again to the place I had them round his neck.

“I can’t lose you,” he murmurs softly.

I work the within of my cheek between my enamel not sure if I ought to say what I’m considering.

“Bella?”

Whoa. The husk of his voice works by means of me. I’m not ready for the impact it has on me. My mind is telling me he’s the enemy, however my physique is loving the texture of his warmth in opposition to mine.

I attempt to step away out of his arms, however he received’t let me.

“What’s unsuitable?” he urges.

“It’s an odd factor to say when you’ll be able to’t convey your self to be in the identical home as me.”

He looms over me all taut muscle and looking out like a beautiful god. It’s arduous to be mad when he saved me from dying. Yeah, I do know. It could have by no means occurred had he not introduced me right here, however the reality stays I’m right here and he saved me from going over that cliff.

“Look—”

“Look—”

We each begin to converse on the identical time.

As an alternative of claiming excuse me or providing for me to go first, De La Rosa does one thing I ought to have anticipated from previous expertise.

He palms the again of my head and takes my lips in a tough kiss. It’s filled with starvation and have to have pores and skin on pores and skin. Variety acknowledges type.

“I can’t appear to keep away from you. After I’m not right here, your voice, your contact, your kisses are all I can take into consideration.”

“I didn’t let you know to stroll out that first night time or to let you know to by no means contact me once more.”

He scrapes his palms by means of his hair. Black and silver fall over his brow, calling my consideration to the blue of his gaze.

“Wanting you isn’t the issue, Bella.”

There’s a seriousness to his voice that has my palms falling to his shoulders after which resting over his coronary heart. I don’t know I’m doing it till his palms come to relaxation over mine. He attracts them up after which locations light kisses on the insides of my palms.

“You’re higher off with me not round.” And but his actions say one thing totally completely different. They converse of the identical starvation his final kiss mirrored. His fingers twine round my moist hair.

“Include me. You’re chilly and I can’t have you ever getting sick.”

Above us, the water kilos in opposition to the dome glass ceiling. I can’t see a lot of it by means of the hanging vines, however the sound is soothing. Magical, actually. I may simply image being locked in right here with Valerian and shutting out the surface world indefinitely.

He bends and hooks his arm behind my knees and lifts me in his arms. He strikes us to a different a part of the atrium. This aspect doesn’t have any vegetation alongside the grey and black hand-carved flooring. He steps by means of a curtain of inexperienced leaves to disclose a sitting pool with shimmering blue lights and rising steam.

“Let me make up for the time I used to be away. I’ll be light with you.”

“These are your flowers? You are inclined to them?” I ought to have guessed.

“Sure. They have been my most valuable possession. And then you definitely got here alongside. You’re probably the most valuable flower to me, now.”

My coronary heart screams for him to show it and my physique agrees.

However can I belief him with both?

“You need a second likelihood?”

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