The night wrapped around them like silk—soft, electric, full of quiet promises waiting to be spoken.
Damien held her close, his heart pounding in sync with hers. The weight of everything they’d shared pressed between them—fragile, fierce, impossible to ignore.
He cupped her face gently, his thumb grazing her cheek as if memorizing the feel of her.
“Where the hell have you been all my life?”
Then his mouth captured hers—a tremulous, desperate meeting. It was raw and aching, threaded with desperate devotion and the kind of love that stripped a man bare.
His hands framed her face like she was something precious, irreplaceable. And in that one breathless moment, he gave her everything—his vow, his surrender, his future—sealed in the quiet, trembling press of his lips to hers.
When he fin
