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She smelled like a vineyard of honeysuckle.
Maybe I should have accepted it as my fate. That it was already over. Maybe I should have known Raven Tayte was really going to be the end of me.
I knew for him, it had been innocent, but it’d never felt that way for me. It’d felt salacious. Like stolen touches that weren’t meant for me, but I wanted to take them for myself, anyway.
Patchouli and warm apple pie. No man should smell that good.
“I just…I need to know that I can handle myself, Otto. For myself. I need to know that I don’t need you or my brother to sweep in and fix everything that goes wrong for me.”
Don’t push me, Raven. You don’t want to see what it looks like when I come unhinged. Think it’s best if you keep your conquests to yourself. Don’t want to think of you with another man, and I sure as fuck don’t want to watch you with one.
“Look at you, Raven. Look at who you are. If you could only see the way I see you. You are brave and strong. So goddamn beautiful. A bloom in the middle of the darkest night.”
Needed to see your face because you’re the only thing in this world that keeps me sane. Only thing that grounds me to reality when I feel it slipping.
neck, and his words rumbled through me when he said, “All right, then, Moonflower, you win. You talk to your brother when you’re ready, and I’ll be here to support you through it. Thick and thin.” Moonflower. My heart panged. “You’ve always been there to support me.” “You keep forgetting that you’re my favorite person in the world.” I wanted to be more than his favorite. I wanted to be his everything.
“I’m wrapped around you on your bike all the time, Otto. I think I can handle being wrapped in your sheets.”
“Don’t ask me not to worry about you.” Emotion came crashing through when she said it. Tears blurred the light in those eyes. “Don’t ask me not to care about you the way you care for me.”
Apparently, I lost all power when it came to her. “Tell me to stop. Tell me not to touch you. Tell me you don’t want this,” I demanded. She laughed a brittle, disbelieving sound. “The only thing I’ve ever wanted is for you to touch me. Haven’t you heard my body begging for it?”
“You think these arms weren’t made to hold you? You think I’m not made to carry every-fucking-thing that you are?”
“All yours, Otto Hudson.”
Otto’s entire being shifts whenever you come into the room. You’re his gravity, Raven.”
“You are the first thought I have when I open my eyes in the morning and the last one before I go to sleep. You are the thunder in my veins and the chaos in my spirit. You are everything I want and the one thing I’m not supposed to have.”
“It means I’m so fuckin’ in love with you, so fuckin’ gone for you, that there’s no chance my world could spin right without you in it. So fuckin’ in love with you that I feel like I’m ripping apart every time I look at you. You are my heart, and that’s the truth.”
“When he looks at me, I simultaneously feel safe and brave. Vulnerable and powerful. I feel like I can really be me.”
“You are the light inside of me, Raven. Only thing that could ever lead me out of the dark. Gonna love you through it all. Under every endless moon. And when dawn finally breaks, I will watch you rise.”
River looked at me for a beat before he stretched out his hand with the stacked Ss tattooed on the back and muttered, “That’s fuckin’ right. That’s what this club does. It’s what this family does. Now let’s go get your girl back.”
