I laugh out a cry and run at him, launching myself into his strong arms that instantly wrap around me.
“You’re mine, Malachi. You’re mine and I’m yours and I love you more than words can explain. Please forgive me. Please. I want you. I want to be with you, build a life with you, and make memories with you. I want to wake up every morning with you by my side. I want you to chase me through these woods and take me against a tree. I want everything you have to give. All of it. Everything. Because I chose you. I—”
Malachi kisses me into silence.
He grins against my lips. “I love you, Olivia.”
I giggle and wrap my legs around his waist, my face sore from how hard I’m smiling. “I love you too. Will you take me inside our home and show me how much you love me?”
He shakes his head and drops me to my feet. “I want to rip that fucking dress from your body then make you bleed all over it.”
Butterflies are going wild inside me, my chest rising and falling with anticipation. “I dare you,” I tease. “I dare you to chase me and make me beg for it.”
Malachi groans and snatches my jaw, pressing a harsh kiss to my mouth before shoving me back, grinning and gesturing to the woods.
“Run, little stranger.”
“ Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.
My mother went through it.
I went through it.
I’ll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.
I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. “It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us. "
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Uh, tell me you trust me and
Kiss me and hug me, yeah
Well, I would do anything for ya
my husbands
cardan "i recall your hands were on her but her eyes were on me" greenbriar and
jacks "glad to know you think about me when you kiss your husband" of the hollow
The kiss is filled with so much passion and unspoken words. It's like he's begging me to stay with him. To never leave him. And I'm tempted to do just that.
But I can't.
Dante captured my mouth in a proper kiss, and the party, the music, the guests…they were all gone, obliterated by the heat of his touch.
It seeped into my chest and my veins, filling me with warmth from the inside out.
The type that existed only when you reached the end of a long journey... and found home.
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“You’re forgetting one thing.” I tapped my jaw.
“What?”
“My kiss.”
“Now you’re the one teasing me.”
“I would never tease about such a serious matter. One kiss for each of my injuries. That’s it. Would you deny a dying man his last wish?”
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“I wasn't anything to you then.”
“You were always something to me. I just didn’t know what it was.”
“I don’t even know when my feelings for you changed. I used to dream you would be my first kiss, you know. But it was a dream. You were so far away.”
“I'm not anymore.”
“You saved me from my nightmares then, and you saved me from them now. Thank you.”
Amara, 18 years
“Let go of everything inside your head. Feel. Just close your eyes and feel. The music. This moment. Me.”
“What if I get hurt?”
“Then, I’ll kiss your scars.”
And just like that, the little of her heart she’d been holding onto was his.
Amara, 17 years
“I will kiss you and brand myself upon your heart, Amara. Just make sure you’re ready for me to.”
Amara, 17 years
“Say something.”
She looked up at him, seeing for the first time how much her silence had affected him.
“Kiss me.”