Mind Lies (30 page)
Authors: Harlow Stone
I don’t want slow.
“Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve been inside you without the worry of interruption?” I ask against her neck, devouring her skin as I pull the strap of her dress from her shoulder.
She shakes her head. “A couple days?”
“Seventy-eight hours,” I deadpan before grabbing her dress, ripping it right down the middle.
Her eyes glaze over, heat overtaking them, as I remove every last stitch of fabric covering her beautiful skin. I don’t bother with my own but simply release my aching cock from the confines of my jeans and grab two handfuls of her fine arse. She obliges by wrapping her legs around my waist, and I waste no time in sinking into her in one hard thrust.
I take her hard and fast, her cries feeding the beast within that wants to be buried inside her twenty-four hours a day. The beast that wants to put a tribe of children in her to mark her as my own.
Our teeth clash and our tongues duel before I tear my mouth from hers and return to the spot on her neck that makes her whimper, cry, and beg.
I run my tongue along the raven taking flight up her neck, tattooed on her shoulder. It used to stand for a horrible time, a time when the word “raven” made her shudder so much that she considered having it removed.
So I pay special attention to the newer part of the tattoo.
“You’ve risen from the ashes, Jerri girl. I believe that’s some of the myth behind the bird, is it not?”
The next day, Jerri came home with
my
tattoo clutched firmly in the bird’s grasp: a Celtic triquetra, talons holding onto it for dear life, ash’s trailing behind knot.
The same knot that’s been tattooed on my chest for decades.
“If I’ve risen from the ashes, I’m bringing you with me. No more ghosts, Locklin.”
I didn’t think I could care for her more. I didn’t think it was possible. But fuck, that day she did me in.
Took the breath right from my lungs.
No more ghosts, Locklin.
As I sink deeper into her body, there isn’t a thought of the ghosts from my past. They may have shaped me into the man I am today, but it’s this woman, this beautiful fucking person in my arms with the voice of an angel and eyes that bring me to my knees, that overpowers anything and everything that was once dark in my life.
She’s the air I didn’t know I needed to breathe.
She’s the light that chased away my shadows.
She was, and always will be, my water.
Mind Lies was a hard one to write. Not because I didn’t love the idea, but because originally I wanted to base the book completely around Jerri singing and the YouTube video. While it was a great theory in my head, I couldn’t keep it interesting without adding my usual flair for dramatics like the Russian’s, the mystery behind her past and why she was hiding, etc.
I love suspense in novels and I hope I kept you guessing and turning the pages in this one. I’m not as proud of this book as I am The Ugly Roses Trilogy, but I sincerely hope you enjoyed it all the same.
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