After rolling round in the soft sheets for a bit, I picked out one of the dresses Crickett had given me.
Once I heard Reese in the kitchen, I made my way out to join him.
“Find everything okay?” he asked, cracking an egg into the pan.
“I did. Thank you.” I perched up on my tiptoes, kissing him on the cheek.
His arm hooked around my waist as he smiled down at me. “What was that for?”
I shrugged. “It just felt right.”
His eyes locked onto my lips. “You feel right.”
I leaned my head onto his chest. “I could say the same thing about you.”
Being tucked into his side, feeling completely safe for the first time since I could remember, I wondered what the feelings I was having actually were. I knew that I was attracted to him—his dark, stormy eyes, his course beard, his big, tattoo covered arms, his crooked smile—it all sent chills through me. I just never had felt like that for someone before in my life—even before Alastor took me.
“Reese?” I rested my chin on his chest while he used his fee hand to scoop the eggs out of the pan and onto plates for us.
“Yes?” His eyes locked with mine as I tried to find the courage to ask him what I really wanted to ask.
“Is it all right if I really kiss you?” The words forced out of me as I closed my eyes, scared to see his reaction to the question.
“Are you sure you really want to?”
I bit my lips while nodding.
“You’re more than welcome to kiss me if you want to, Katherine.”
I wrapped my arms around his neck, keeping my eyes closed as I tilted my head back. As his lips brushed over mine, every cell in my body set on fire in a very good way. It was fleeting but perfect.
“You’re pretty amazing and so damn confusing, sweetheart,” Reese chuckled, pulling me tightly into him.
“What do you mean?” I looked up at him as he pushed his thumb over my cheek.
“I honestly thought you were still scared of me,” he admitted.
I shook my head. “I haven’t been since Crickett told me about the time she met Abel and all of the amazing things he did for her.”
“Well, I have to confess, that makes me extremely happy.”
“Me too.”
Chapter 11
Katherine
No. Not the device again.
I cowered away from Alastor as he knelt down next to my bed. My wrists and ankles were tied together behind me as I was forced to lay there on my side, naked and completely defenseless to him.
“What happens when you disobey me?” he snarled as he turned the knob on the end of the electrocution wand all the way up.
My eyes slammed shut. “I have to learn my lesson,” I answered.
“And what did you do wrong?” His hot breath landed on my cheek as the fiery burn from the rod coursed from my hip bone through my entire body.
My teeth clenched shut as I tried not to scream out from the pain.