Rush (Rush, #1)

by Emma Scott

An ache clenched my heart so hard I nearly gasped. Companionship. Someone in my space, touching me, talking to me, just sitting next to me and sharing a meal, as if I were whole. But I wasn’t.

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Because only when you’re about to lose it all, do you realize how much you have.”

My endless black was never going to go away. That was certainty. But kissing Charlotte had been a burst of light streaking across it, like a comet.

What I needed, I realized, was to get my ass out of bed, out of this room. For her. For me too, I supposed, but mostly for her. I didn’t have anything to give her, not one damn thing, but I could make her feel good about her job. That, I could do.

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I lay cocooned in the blankets, in the scent of her, my body remembering the feel of her and wanting more. Wanting her completely, in every way, now and into some unknown stretch of time.

Charlotte called up to me. “Ready?” No. But I’m trying, baby. I really am. “On my way,” I called back and went out.

BABY 🥹🥹😴

“Until you, I was lost. Sometimes, you’re the only thing that ever feels real to me.”

“I’m going to make you feel good right now, Charlotte,” he whispered, then lifted off my shirt and flung it away. “You deserve to feel good…”

“I need her. I can’t function without her. I can’t even find my way to our room without her.”

He slipped his hands down to my bare shoulders. “Strapless,” he said approvingly, a smile ghosting over his lips. He trailed his hands down my back, then around to my waist, feeling the material and letting it slide through his fingers. “Color?” “Black,” I managed, as his hands had left little trails of heat all over my body. “Are you wearing lipstick?” “Yes.” “You’re going to have to redo it,”

“A last wish I’m afraid won’t ever fade. I’ve made peace with my blindness but if I could see just once more—just one thing in this world—it would be you. I would only need a second. One second, and I would hold the image of you in my heart forever.”

“I love you, Noah. With my heart and my soul and this body. With every part of me. I love you so much you don’t have to see it. You can feel it.”