Wretched (Never After Series)(75)
“You do not know how longingly I look upon you. You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking.” He bends his head down and ghosts his lips across my cheek. “I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you, All is recall’d as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured.”
His nose rubs against mine, and my stomach flips and flies.
“You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me, I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only.”
His fingers move, tracing over my forehead, my nose, my cheeks. I close my eyes, the sound of the ocean almost as loud as the beat of my heart from where it pounds in my chest.
“You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return. I am not to speak to you. I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone.”
He wraps his hand around mine, moving the gun down until it’s at my side instead of under his chin.
“I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again.” His breath skims across my lips. “I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”
I look behind him, seeing the storm rolling in and a faint rainbow peeking from its edges and dipping into the water below.
“You know, for not believing in romance—”
“I’m so fucking in love with you, Eveline Westerly,” he cuts me off.
I grin, rising up on my tiptoes to press a kiss to his lips. “Every wretched piece?”
He brushes the hair back from my face. “Every single one.”
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LITTLE LOVE SPELLS
Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
Sonnet 151 by Shakespeare
Bright Star by John Keats
To a Stranger by Walt Whitman
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emily McIntire is an Amazon Top 15 bestselling author of painful, messy, beautiful romance. She doesn’t like to box herself into one subgenre, but at the core of all her stories is soul deep love.
A long time songwriter and an avid reader, Emily has always had a passion for the written word, and when she’s not writing you can find her waiting on her long lost Hogwarts letter, chasing her crazy toddler, or lost between the pages of a good book.