~Elias~

I kiss her deeper, tasting the sweet vanilla on her tongue over and over until my head spins so fast I can barely think.

"Alice," I growl against her lips, breaking away for just a split second to look down at her dark eyes in the dim morning light. "I’m not letting you go. I’m done waiting, I’m done pretending you don't belong to me."

"Don't," she whispers, her chest rising and falling fast under her jacket, her fingers locking tightly into the hair at the back of my neck to ...