Storm of Secrets and Sorrow (Legacy #2)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

Our nights would be more than fucking fruit, cheese, and crackers. Our nights would be soft words instead of barbed ones to deflect and protect. Our nights would be intimate touches rather than frantic ones of uncertainty. Our nights would be my hands in your hair instead of your fingers pulling on the strands. Our nights would be anything but whatever the fuck this is. Our nights wouldn’t involve mental shields blocking each other out, and if you tried, I’d call you out on that bullshit. But I can’t do that right now, can I?” She swallowed again, shaking her head in his grasp. “Our nights would be dark, but you’d love it there because you’d realize we need your light as much as you crave the dark.” “I hate the dark,” she challenged. His lips curled in a knowing smirk. “You fear the dark because you crave it, Tessa. You hate it because you think you are alone there, but your nights would never be spent alone. Never again. That’s what it would have been like.”

What it would be like...