DAWN
i just killed off what was left of the optimist in me
There is something about him that sparks a confidence in her, one that she wasn’t sure that she had. Her trysts with Litotes had been desperate and needy, her night with Clayton just a little bit awkward, but still sweet. This is something completely different and the two men are nowhere near her thoughts as her eyes meet Valek’s, and she isn’t sure which of theirs have grown darker with growing desire. His lips graze her jawline and she trembles not from the cold, leaning into the soft touch as though she is drowning and he is her source of air.
When his lips brush against the corner of her mouth, she hesitates, but it is only brief. She returns his kiss tenderly and releases a breath she didn’t know she was holding as he pulls away, his voice nearly as tense as his body. She doesn’t respond as he pulls her in, their chests colliding in the freezing water and all of the air rushing from her lungs as he wraps her into an embrace. This is something she wants so desperately that she can hardly hold herself back; her lips meet his neck and nip gently at the flesh there, simultaneously pulling at his mane.
“Yes,” she whispers breathlessly against him, shifting in the water to bring them even closer together. “Valek, I want you,” she breathes, and she wonders if he can hear the need in her voice – she is nearly pleading with him now, the strength of her own desire threatening to pull her underwater and break her. Her lips press soft kisses to every part of his skin that she can claim, all the way up to the base of an ear. “Perhaps we should,” she suggests with a breathy chuckle, indicating the shore several yards away. The water between them is nothing more than a barrier now, and she wants to shed every barrier that separates them.
@[Valek] dawn's ready to GET IT ON