Inheritance

[Excerpt]:

"Does it bother you?" He asked, after an incisive moment of silence.

"Does...what bother me?" I immediately returned, unable to decipher the objective behind the closed-ended question.

"The way I stare. At you." He pondered, as his dark gaze studied my flushed appearance.

Glowering down at me from a modest distance above, I was sure he could uncover every last one of my veiled secrets with one of his enigmatic looks. The way his midnight gaze steadily roamed across my unassuming frame had caused my body to ignite from within, but it also spawned me to wonder what about the man aroused such pronounced feelings from me.

"Yes." I finally responded in a fragile voice I barely recognized as my own.

Rather than acknowledge the closeted remark, he smoothly strutted forward until his body was crouched directly in front of mine. Our faces were now jarringly closer than they'd been mere seconds ago, allowing me to analyze the perfectly smooth ridges of his unblemished features.

"Good." He concluded, as his melancholy orbs drifted to my stilted lips.

**Contains mature/adult content