“I promised that if I had you”—his thumb traces the curve of my lips—“it would only be because you let me.” “So have me.” It’s a desperate demand from lips that already miss his. “You don’t want me to beg for you first?” he drawls. My fingers catch his chin. “Is that not what you’ve done since the moment we met?” He chuckles, and the sound snakes its way down my spine. The tie at my back grows loose as Kai toys with the knot. “And it is what I will do until the moment I meet my end.”
