A Fire Endless (Elements of Cadence, #2)

by Rebecca Ross

“If I am weak for wanting you, then let me embrace that weakness and make it my strength,” he said, his gaze fixed on the west. “And if you must haunt me, then let me haunt you in return.”

But the words he had sung to her earlier that night, words that had drifted over a dark expanse of kilometers … he longed for her, even after she had put such a distance between them. Even with all her fears and mistakes and scars.

And to lose her now would be worse than drowning, worse than burning.

And I would tell you to sing up a hundred storms, if only to hear such beauty and truth again. To feel it settle in my bones and warm my blood. To know it is mine and mine alone to claim.

I love you, more than these humble words and this everlasting ink can say. I love you, Jack.

For once, she wasn’t afraid to surrender those pieces of herself, to let them twine with Jack. She let them all go because he was her home, her shelter. Her endless fire, burning through the dark.

“You don’t know what you do to me,” he whispered. “By you alone I could be undone.”

Jack closed his eyes, his fingertips memorizing the curve of her back. He thought, I could live for a cold, dark eternity and never forget this night.

He had never kissed her like this before, like he needed something that dwelled deep within her.

Adaira leaned forward, brushing his lips with hers. “I think that I want to make such music with you until my last day when the isle takes my bones. I think that you are the song I was longing for, waiting for. And I will always be thankful that you returned to me.”