Insight (Web of Hearts and Souls #1)(30)

“What is it?” I thought as loud as I could.

He reluctantly stopped kissing me, doing his best to suppress a sensual laugh, and stared into my eyes as his fingertip traced my bottom lip, then gently eased down my neck and settled just beside my collarbone.

Innocent thoughts, Willow. Get it together. Right now.

“Well, it’s not as interesting as all of yours.” His tone was deep, and entrancing. When he spoke aloud I felt the words caress my skin, when he spoke in his thoughts I felt them hum within my soul. It caused every part of me to fill with fire. This was going to be the longest night of my life. I was sure of it.

“I can determine truth or intent, but it’s flawed. People can change their intent in an instant.” The sinful smirk on the corner of his lips stopped my breath.

What was he saying? He could feel my intent? This internal war I had going on right now.

“How does it work?” I asked as I told myself to stop blushing.

Landen lay back down, still staring at me. “I feel it. I can feel if they believe what they’re saying. The intent is harder to explain. I don’t see it or hear it, but I know what they intend to do.”

I turned crimson. He did feel my internal war, but he was being a gentleman. They didn’t make guys like this where I came from. At least I’d never gotten close enough to one to know whether they did. “Do they think it came from your dad? Does he have insight?”

“No. That’s why your family is rare. There is usually one gift every other generation.”

I suddenly realized that I didn’t know anything about his mother or whether or not he had any brothers or sisters. “Where is the rest of your family? Are they in Chara?” I asked, watching him grin as he tucked a piece of my hair behind my ear so he could see my face more clearly.

“My mother, Aubrey, and my sister, Clarissa, took a cab from an airport in New York to a hotel and have been shopping, using your mother’s credit cards. My brother, Brady, is in Washington, using your father’s credit cards.”

“Why?”

“They’re just trying to leave a paper trail for your world. Because you lived there so long they needed to fade you away.”

I wasn’t sure how I felt about fading away from all the people I loved here.

“It was just a precaution,” Landen thought, seeing the effect that his words had on me.

I nodded understanding. “What did you talk to your father about?” I asked needing to change the subject.

“It wasn’t really a talk. I asked if he knew you were the one I dreamed of when he asked me to come here.”

“What did he say?”

“He was silent.” Landen paused then glanced up at me. “He understands my insight. He knows if he doesn’t answer, I won’t be able to tell if he’s telling the truth.”

“What is his intent?”

“All I can see is that he wants us safe at home,” Landen thought.

“None of this makes any sense to me.”

Landen pulled himself up on one arm and gazed over me, taking in every part of me. His hand fluttered over my body, barely touching, yet it felt like he was consuming me. “Everything has its reason. It may not be clear to us tonight, but one day it will be. You and I have proved beyond any doubt that our beliefs are not false. We are meant to be with someone, the one. I found you. No one can keep us apart now. Our love will now be the story told to define how sacred love is.”

Nervously I leaned up and framed his lips with mine. “I do love you,” I thought softly, knowing that before he very well could have not heard my words.

Those words seemed to ignite the raw cravings that were seeping from each of our bodies. He leaned into our kiss, let his tongue wisp across mine, I groaned with pure pleasure, his strong hand eased down the side of my body. “And I do love you.”

I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and bowed my back trying to get closer to him. His lips escaped mine, trailed down my jaw, gently nipping the skin there before finding my neck. That sensation, the feel if his lips right there, the embrace of his hands as they innocently explored was enough to make me gasp. I started to tremble again with pure desire, those angelic lips eased back to mine, slowly ending the onset of deep passion.

His eyes fell into mine as he gently squeezed my sides. “We’ve waited so long, I don’t want to rush this. I don’t want you to tremble in my arms.”

“I’m not trembling out of fear,” I thought with a blush.

His hand moved down my waist, eventually finding my thigh, he squeezed that flesh and moved his hand slowly forward, I close my eyes as I sighed.

I felt his lips on my neck once more, but the kiss was all too brief.

“I know.”

A sinful smile echoed on my lips. I was going to have to be careful about setting intent around him.

“I just want it to be right, our house. I want to take my time with you. Love you the way I have dreamed of every day of my life.”

I cradled his face with my hands. A boyish smile came to his lips. “This cabin is too crowded.”

I giggled at that. “Then you are going to have to talk to me. Distract me.”

“What do you want to know?”

“Everything. Tell me about your family. Are you sure your family is okay with running around this dimension for us?”