Reflected in You (Crossfire, #2)

by Sylvia Day

“You know what happens when you run, angel.” Gideon nipped my lower lip with his teeth and then soothed the sting with the caress of his tongue. “I catch you.”

“You hit me the instant I saw you,” he said gruffly. “I couldn’t look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.”

“No one’s ever seen before, Eva. You’re the only one.”

“Cool?” he scoffed. “I was on fire for you. I’ve been fucked up ever since.”

“Good. Because I treasure you, Eva, and what we have. Even our driving urge to fuck each other constantly is precious to me, because it matters.”

“It’s my place to stand beside you, and support you, and yes, just fucking look pretty on your arm sometimes. It’s my right, my duty, and my privilege, Eva, just as it’s yours in reverse.”

“There’s only you, Eva.” His voice was clipped and hard.

“The only way I’m keeping my hands off her is if I’m dead. Find another way to fix us.”

Folding over me, he pressed his lips softly to mine. “Don’t you know, angel?” he breathed. “There’s no one I trust more.”

“You can be so good for me, Gideon,” I told him softly. “I don’t know how I could ever forget that. Even for a minute.”

“Look at me, Eva.” He cupped his balls in one hand and his cock in the other. Shameless, which was such a turn-on. “I don’t want to come without you. I need you with me.”

“You ache without my cock inside you. You’ll say anything to have me there.”

Pinned to the mattress by his grip, his weight, and his unflagging erection, I was completely at his mercy. He began to thrust, stroking through the trembling walls of my sex with the thickly veined length of his big cock. Claiming me. Possessing me.

“You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.”

could say with his body what he couldn’t with words, and my lust for him was how I proved my faith in us, something he needed to feel connected to me.

Gideon caught me up, his lips pressing to mine. “I don’t know how to walk away.” “Shh.”

The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.

His eyes closed as I touched him. “I miss being inside you.”

“You’re always inside me,” I whispered.

“That’s it, angel.” His fingers pushed my underwear aside and two sank into me. “I’m going to fuck this gorgeous cunt for days.”

“You feel so good,” I whispered, stroking his raging cock with my eager, aching sex. Sliding up and down. “You’re all I need, Gideon. All I want. You were made for me.”

“You’re all I want, Eva. There’s no one else. There will never be anyone else.”

“Are you hurt anywhere else?” I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we’d had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. “Here.”

“I was seriously hurt because of you. Seeing you in another guy’s arms, kissing him . . .” His eyes grew hot and dark. “It shredded me, Eva. Cut me open and left me bleeding. I kicked his ass in self-defense.”

His grip loosened, his lungs heaving. “Your kisses are mine.”

“I’d rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else.”

“I’m going to do whatever the hell I want with melted chocolate and your body because it’ll please me and that will please you. I say when, I say how. Repeat that.”

“For you, Eva,” he gasped. “Every drop.”

“I’m desperate for you,” he said hoarsely. “I’m miserable without you.”

“I need you as much.” He nuzzled into my hair, fucking me slow and easy. “I’m just as obsessed. Why can’t you trust me?”

His teeth sank into my lower lip with enough force to hurt. “You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.”

“You know I don’t want anyone else,” he murmured. “I can’t. I’m consumed with wanting you.”

Gideon’s hands were in my hair, holding me in place as he ravaged my mouth with desperate kisses. “Don’t leave me.” “Leave you? I’m going to marry you.” He inhaled sharply. Then he pulled me closer, his hands careless and rough as they slid over me.

Reaching for my hand, he lifted it to his lips and kissed my fingertips. “I love you.”

“I love you. Still not the right word, but I know you want to hear it.”

“People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won’t happen for me. I won’t survive you, Eva.” My breath caught at the look on his face when he glanced at me. “I’m obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You’re everything I’ve ever wanted or needed, everything I’ve ever dreamed of. You’re everything. I live and breathe you. For you.”

“I don’t need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you’re in it.”

“Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn’t before. I have a place now, with you.”

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