Transcending Nirvana (Dark Evoke #3) by V. L. Brock Read Free Book Online Page B

was, ‘Another lie…’”
    Holy fuck…
    “What about…” Air I so desperately didn’t want to catch in my throat at the mere contemplation of her, caught anyway. My eardrums buzzed with the increase of my body temperature and adrenaline. “What about, Liv…?”
    “What about her?”
    “You acted as though you hadn’t met before at Ecstasy, but you had met her before…”
    “I told you, darlin’, I was a stranger. As a stranger it was easier to wipe the slate clean. I love you, I want to protect you. I’m not going to lie, I thought maybe a bit of jealousy would have helped move things along a little quicker,” he chuckled before continuing, his arms constricting around me again and his voice became much graver, his lilt enriched and beyond ridiculously sexy. “If having a do-over was what it took to not cause you to panic and distance yourself from me…then that’s what I would do. I’d lost you before, Kady, I couldn’t risk it again.” Against his arm, I smiled and he pressed a kiss against my temple. “Is there anything else?”
    The only one I could think of was: “Where’s my bracelet?”
    Walker slipped his arm from out of the valley of my cleavage leaving me feeling instantly cold and lonely without it there. The bed squealed as he turned. Hearing the drawer of the bedside unit being pulled open, I rolled onto my right side to face him. Between his thumb and middle finger, a familiar silver bracelet with a teddy bear holding a shamrock, dangled. Delirious, I beamed. “I found it in the side zipper of your purse in the hospital. Let’s put it back where it belongs, eh?”
    Holding out my right wrist, Walker wrapped the chain around me, fastening the clasp. I jiggled my wrist and the silver links tickled and brushed the sensitive skin. The bear swayed. “Thank you for keeping it safe.”
    “I want to keep you safe, Kady. That’s all I want. I have done since the first time I saw you at the Hyperion.”
    Pouting adorably, his lips were pressed together, while his eyes tapered in bemusement when I murmured, “That wasn’t the first time we met, Walker.” I studied him studying me as though I had lost all my marbles…again…I bit my lip and let my gaze falter slightly. “You pulled over and offered me a ‘ride’ one night. It was December and Liam and I had a disagreement, it was the first time he taught me a lesson. He pushed me from the car and I was to make my own way back home.” The look of recognition which was displayed in his eyes the moment I brought my gaze back to him was so heartwarming that my heart fluttered under my ribs. I rested my left hand on the side of his face, his stubble tickling my palm as I hooked my leg over his hip, effectively drawing our bodies together. “You came into my life the very moment my life was changing. Things happen for a reason, Walker. We happened for a reason.”
    We drowned in the sound of silence for seconds, minutes…
    Gazes dithered from eyes to lips and back again, almost in slow motion. Momentarily, a V scored between his brows and his lips pursed as if to say something, but before the chance was given, our lips were already moving closer together. I allowed my lower lip to catch on his, rolling it from my lower teeth temptingly as I tipped my head back a fraction.
    Like a fish too close to the hook, I was caught when I finally pulled back. His teeth sunk into my lower lip, I was dragged back until my mouth was claimed by his luscious lips and skillful tongue. Sweeping decadently through my mouth before coiling around my own, his hand cupped the back of my head and I was wrenched closer, our connection deepening.
    Between my thighs, the pressing need didn’t go unnoticed. And neither did our frenzied caresses, with equally impatient hands groping and clawing at one another. At the same time, unrestrained sounds of desperation were both freed and swallowed.
    “I’m sorry, Kady…” he breathed against my lips before pulling