Wanting Mr. Cane (Cane #1)

by Shanora Williams

I had fallen hard for him, and it hurt so much to want a man I couldn't have.

Kandy and Cane. His Kandy Cane.

We'd started something—lit an inextinguishable fire in our souls—and that fire was going to burn us inside and out. It was going to consume us whole and probably destroy us. The fire was going to blaze like a furnace, and neither of us had time to prepare for it.

“Doesn’t matter what kind of shit we go through, you’ll always be mine, Kandy. Doesn’t matter how fucked up the situation is, or how wrong it fucking feels…you are mine.”

Everything he’d given me was going to be cherished. I just wished he could say the same.

“if you don’t love everything about yourself, how can you possibly take on the task of loving everything about someone else?”

But this was Kandy. My Kandy. My baby. And as my baby, I knew I had to take care of her.

“Well, one day,” Cane whispered, just as I was drifting off to sleep, “fighting is what you’ll have to do to save yourself from me.”

“I have no clue what to do with you. Wanting you is a beautiful challenge, Kandy Cane, and though it’s complicated, I don’t want to figure this one out anytime soon. As selfish as it sounds, I want this challenge to last for as long as it possibly can. I love the spontaneity of what we have—the satisfaction I get when I see your smile, and the comfort I feel when your skin touches mine.”

“Don’t ever think I don’t love you,” he said in my ear. A full thrust. More tears. “I fucking love you, Kandy. Love you more than words.”