Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 278
For now, though, he just lifted his chin.
I did too, and we wordlessly squared off against each other, with the cameras panning between us.
Amber’s POV
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Julian and I sat in the backseat of the car while the driver up front, behind the partition, drove around aimlessly under Julian’s prior instruction. He had said he was too frustrated to return to the hospital just yet, but he also didn’t want to take this anger of his home with him.
So for now, the car traveled aimlessly around his pack, while he and I took turns staring out the window and at each other.
When I noticed the way he was rubbing his thighs like the lingering silver pain was bothering him, I was embarrassed for not having seen his pain sooner. Some Healer I was, if I couldn’t even help those closest to me.
Looking up at him, I waited for him to look back at me, and then I said, “Take off your pants p>
His eyebrows shot the whole way up to his hairline, and I realized at once what I had said, and what it sounded
like.
“I didn’t mean it like that!” I said quickly, blushing furiously. “I just wanted to check on your wounds p>
“Oh,” he said, a soft little sound that was filled with disappointment.
“I just p>
“It’s fine,” he said. He unhooked his belt, then shuffling a little on the seat, he pushed down his pants to his knees, revealing the worst of the damage.
While the wounds themselves had healed, the lingering trace of silver remained as long dark streaks that chased along his veins. The area around the darkest of the sections was red and inflamed, clearly painful.
“When we get to the hospital, I can get you something to help with the pain,” I said.
“The pain is fine,” he said. “I can manage p>
“Julian,” I said, looking back up at him. “There’s no need to be so… stubborn p>
My voice trailed as I realized what I was seeing. His face held some color. His eyes had darkened as his gaze on me intensified.
That wasn’t pain filling those eyes this time. It was a needy and open heat. One that I immediately felt fill my own body – my chest, a lower.
For a long moment, we froze, simply looked at each other.
Julian had his pants down. My hands were on his thighs, only a few inches away from his boxer briefs and the proof of his interest starting to make itself known.
“Julian,” I started to say.
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“We don’t have to,” he replied, almost as quickly p>
I knew that. I knew Julian would never force anything on me. The only way this would continue was if I wanted it
What he mustn’t have been realizing though, as he had told me that, was that I very much wanted to.
I was no less immune from the burning connection between us than he was. The only difference was that I denied myself much more effectively than he could.
But that didn’t mean that I wanted to.
Especially now, after everything that had happened in that news station, with the way he had defended me so passionately.
It stirred those feelings inside of me.
Before I had thought he’d claim his words were a lie, said in only the heat of the moment. To save himself, he could have diminished his feelings for me and the promises he had made.
But he didn’t do that. Instead he doubled down on those feelings, showing me that he meant his words and that he truly was going to try to protect my heart this time.
The walls I had tried to build around my heart came crumbling down and I surged upwards, catching Julian’s mouth with mine.