Dark Solace (38 page)

That was odd. “Suddenly I’m forgiven?”

Theo ignored me. “Again?” Theo asked, kissing
my neck softly. “Or are you finished?”

“Again, please,” I instructed in a false
commanding tone, lying back and giving him a smile.

He laughed, then slid the condom on. “That’s
my line,” he said, kissing me thoroughly.

I gave him a seductive smile, and then rolled
over, straddling him. Rubbing my hips against his, I stroked his
firm shaft between my thighs. Theo let out a growl, then took my
waist in his hands and lifted me, settling me very slowly down on
his swollen shaft. I let out soft cries as he slowly penetrated
inch by delicious inch.

“I know what you like,” he growled softly.
“Come here.” He guided my lips to his, his mouth devouring mine,
and he began stroking me deeply, moving my hips with his hands.
With a sigh of bliss, I lost myself in the sensations.

* * * *

Theo made love to me for two hours straight,
until we were covered in sweat and I was too sore to continue. We
held each other in exhausted silence as our breathing slowed.

“I love you,” I whispered. “Please tell me we
can work out things between us, Theo. I don’t want to lose you
because of what I did.”

“I love you, too,” Theo said, looking down at
me tenderly. “I forgive you, for what you did, Sar. I believe you,
when you say you haven’t been with Lash, and I trust you, when you
say you won’t be with him again.”

Tears ran down my face. I hugged him
quickly.

“Will you go get tested, so we can be
together without protection?” Theo murmured. “I know you said Lash
told you he hadn’t been with anyone else, but I don’t trust him,
Sar. And he gave you that disease back in the spring—”

“I’ll make an appointment tomorrow,” I
blurted, very ashamed. “I need to go anyway, as Stephen said he
needed to make sure my body was doing okay after having had Devon
and Venus. The vampire virus peaked, but I haven’t been back to get
myself checked.”

“Do you want me to go with you?” Theo
offered.

“No, though we have therapy we need to go to
together next week,” I reminded him.

“How did it go today?” Theo said, nuzzling
me. “You said it was bad. Was Carol nervous?”

“We all were,” I replied thoughtfully. “Carol
told Lash that he had to be my friend, and not my lover, and he
agreed that was what he needed to do. That was mostly it.”

“That’s all you talked about for an hour?”
Theo said skeptically. “It doesn’t look like it had any lasting
effect on Lash, from what he tried to do to you on our front
lawn.”

I was disappointed in Lash about that myself.
Yet maybe this was how he really was. But I was partly to blame,
too. I should have told him the truth, and not made it seem as
though I was pining for him, like some long lost love.

“Well, we also talked about how he hated
you,” I added. “Carol made me understand that I have to not be too
friendly or casual with him, because it might lead to something
more. I’m a touchy kind of person, and I reach out for someone to
console them before thinking about if they are a man, and how they
might take it—”

“That isn’t your fault,” Theo interjected.
“You’ve always been that way.”

“I have to not be that way with him. It’s not
fair to him, either. I don’t want to make this harder for him than
it has to be.”

“What did he mean to you?” Theo asked,
turning to look at me. “I know you, Sar, that for what happened to
have happened, there must have been something between you.”

I avoided his gaze. “He was just comfort,” I
lied. “Someone I turned to when I felt trapped. But that’s over
now.” I bit my lip, then snuggled close to Theo, willing him
silent.

About the Author

Tara Fox Hall’s
writing credits include nonfiction, horror, suspense,
action-adventure, erotica, and contemporary and historical
paranormal romance. She is the author of the paranormal
action-adventure
Lash
series and the vampire romantic
suspense
Promise Me
series. Tara divides her free time
unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing
firewood, caring for stray animals, sewing cat and dog beds for
donation to animal shelters, and target practice.

Other works by the author with
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Broken Promise

Taken in the Night

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