Bound: Toxic Love (Book 2)

Chapter XXXI

Christian's POV

There were no mare words to explain how much I felt for this girl.. Lana.. Not even she understood the things she did to me. How easily she made me fully fascinated, completely compelled and lost in her spell.. Completely mesmerized by just the thought of her.

And there I was, having her in my arms, having her worry about me, having her care.. I knew.. The minute I laid my eyes on her, I knew she was what I wanted. I wanted her fully. I wanted to call her mine and claim the fact that she belonged to no one else but me. Her mind, body and soul. And I got what I wanted. I had her. And she couldn't even slightly get how much that meant to me.

She didn't have trust. No, not fully. Not in the beginning at least. I gave myself a challenge.. I promised myself that I wouldn't stop until I have her give herself to me. I was never wishing to take anything.. Even if my nature made me a predator, I was still no captor. I was never wishing to take her freedom away. I only wished to have her willingly, because only then I would have her fully.

That night, that was exactly what she did. She showed how much she cared and that gave away plenty. It meant that she had given up on that stubbornness fully and was willing to let me have her completely.. Fully..

I knew how much her family meant to her, and I knew how much she wanted us to stay a secret. That night, she gave that up too.. And that's how I knew I had her full trust. It was all I ever wanted. Her trust. Because with trust came a lot more, and I wanted all of it for myself.

Now I had her in my room, leaned on the head of the bed beside me, with her head pressed against my shoulder, hands against my chest, laying in my arms and letting me marvel at her presence, lose myself in her scent.. That silence was never more comfortable.

  "Lana?"

  "Mm?" I felt her breath near my neck as she looked up at me, and it took me everything not to pull her closer against myself, kiss those lips until she was left thoughtless, senseless..

  "You alright?"

  "Are you?"

  "We're not doing that, darling, no answering questions with questions." She straightened up a bit to look at me better, with her eyes still intently on me with that simple way of reading me.

"I'm fine if you are." Again that wasn't exactly an answer. And I was worried considering the fact that I was basically dead for a few hours and she was left to deal with those witches alone.. "I know that sounds unbelievably cheesy, but Christian, you don't know how much you scared me when you didn't wake up at first.. I don't even know what went through me, but you terrified me."

"I know, baby, I know." I didn't know how, or with what intention whatever we had was growing, but I loved having her near me. It was hard to explain, yet she still gave me this soothing, this unbelievable calmness to grow inside me. It was as if all I needed was her and nothing else mattered. The world could end I wouldn't even notice.

"What else happened while I was out? Other than that story.." I saw how she looked on the side.. How she exhaled a slow breath with the memory of that..

  "Nothing.." The look she sent me seemed to hold so much.. I couldn't even follow up. "Nothing, but it's not over. Not yet."