Hunt the Moon
Page 33
“Look,” he said, scrubbing both hands over his head. “I know we haven’t discussed what happens next. Not like we’ve really had time to talk about our daily lives at all, but—shit, I’m rambling. I guess what I’m trying to say is, now that the chaos is mostly over and—”
“Are you asking me to move in with you?”
He blew out a breath. “Yeah, I am. I want you to stay. I want you.”
Heat bloomed in her chest. Pulling aside the collar of her shirt, she revealed the bite mark he’d made on her shoulder. Luke’s eyes flashed gold. She grazed the matemark with a finger and tingles raced over her skin, swirling and swirling. Damn.
Breathless, she said, “I thought I’d already given you my answer.”
Before she knew what happened, she lay on her back in the middle of the big bed, Luke perched above her. He looked at her like he’d never seen anyone more beautiful.
“I love you, Isabelle.”
God, how had she gotten this lucky? With trembling hands, she cupped his face. “I never thought I could have anything like this, anyone like you. You’ve given me everything I ever wanted. A family. A place to belong in this world. Thank you.”
Luke shook his head. “You deserve all that and more, my mate. But you already had a family and home. I just helped you see it.”
She pulled him down, and just before his lips met hers, she whispered, “I love you.”
His smile burned as bright and warm as the fire in the hearth. “Say it again.”
“I love you, Luke.”
As if they had all the time in the world, they explored each other’s mouths, nipping, licking, tasting. Luke pulled off her shirt, and as he bared her skin, he kissed each healing cut, bruise, and scrape with exquisite tenderness.
He pressed a kiss to her chest, over her heart, and another to her matemark. “Mine,” he said.
Clasping her hand, he kissed her fingers and touched them to the matching bite on his shoulder. Another kiss, and he laid her hand over his heart.
“Yours,” he said, his voice thick with emotion.
She kissed him hard, accepting his gift. Then, she looked into his flashing eyes and let him see everything she had, everything she felt, everything she was.
“Forever,” she agreed.
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Stay tuned for Vaughn’s story, Touch the Sky, coming soon from Kari Cole!
Acknowledgments
No amount of words can ever express my unending gratitude to my magnificent and marvelous critique partners. Autumn Jones Lake, Cara Connelly, and Virginia Frost, you ladies rock hard. Thank you for helping make my dream a reality.
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Kari Cole is an award-winning author of paranormal romances. Her action-packed stories have earned several awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart®, the Kiss of Death’s Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, and the Toronto Romance Writers’ Catherine. Kari lives in upstate New York with her college sweetheart, two way-too-smart-for-their-own-good sons, and a ridiculous labradoodle named for the bravest of Star Wars heroes, Artoo.
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ISBN-13: 9781488099502
Hunt the Moon
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