Viper (Fallen Angel #2)(71)
Halo reached up and gently touched his fingertips to my lips, halting my words, and all the pain and hurt that I’d seen earlier in his eyes melted away. “You wanna be with me?”
A heavy exhale left me. “You have no fucking idea how much.”
Halo’s eyes, those beautiful, luminous eyes of his, all but glowed as his lips curved into that charming smile I loved. “Then I’m ready.”
It took me a second to realize what he was referring to, and then, without any hesitation at all, I said, “I love you, Angel. I love you more than I ever thought possible. And this week without you has been the most miserable fucking week of my life.”
Halo slid his fingers through my hair, the grin on his lips growing impossibly wider as he rested his other hand over my thumping heart. “I love you too.”
“You do?” I said as I reached for him, wrapping my arms around his waist.
“Of course I do. I’m a romantic, you cynical, jaded asshole. But if you ever pull this shit on me again—”
“I won’t.”
Halo chuckled as he wrapped both his arms around my neck and said against my mouth, “Good. Because every single person at this party is recording us right now. So I have proof of all of this.”
“Wait, there are other people in this room?”
“Mhmm. For someone who didn’t want to take this public, you aren’t doing a real good job of keeping this a secret.”
No, I wasn’t. Was I? “That’s your fault.”
“How do you figure?”
“Because it’s been too fucking long since I’ve kissed this mouth, and I’ll be damned if I wait another minute.”
As I leaned in to finally get my lips on the man smiling at me, the one who had consumed me from the moment I laid eyes on him, Halo curled his fingers in my hair, drawing me toward him. We met each other halfway, as equals, finally on the same damn page, and once his mouth met mine, I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be. I was home. It may have taken me dragging us through hell to get there, but as I tightened my arms around Halo’s waist and his mouth opened to me, I knew that now I had the angel right where I wanted him, there was no way I was ever letting go.