Transcending Nirvana (Dark Evoke #3) Read Online Free Page A

degree of agitation and frustration hanging over him, was palpable. It made my heart constrict and I inwardly kicked myself for being so insensitive. I already knew how he felt about how many worlds apart we were…or to be more precise, how many worlds apart he thought we were.
    With my arms falling loosely from around his waist, I urged him to turn away from the tub and face me. When he did, his eyes were equally rueful and chagrined. “Hey, stop this. It’s not like you picked me up last night and this is the morning after. We had a friendship, Walker, a foundation, and we grew from that. I know you, like you know me. It’s us, no shame…no judgment.”
    My words seemed to pacify him, because the frown which was cemented in place a second ago became loose, and a timid smile broke free. With that boyish grin gazing back at me and slightly raised, dark brows, my hands lifted into his hair and locked at the nape of his neck. He breathed me in, and through my matted tresses, pressed a kiss against the hollow of my ear before burying his face into the crook of my neck. “I just want to give you the world, darlin’. I want to make you happy.”
    “Then join me.”
    From my shoulder he freed himself and I was held steady at arms length. Somehow, only Walker could make the deer in the headlight expression look both adorable and sexy.
    “You said you want to make me happy, so join me,” I gestured to the empty tub behind him with a tip of my head, emphasizing my answer.
    “Kady,” he breathed and with an uncertain shake of his head, his lips twitched. “I…I don’t want us to…I like…”
    “Jesus Christ, Walker, spit it out,” I joked.
    “I loved what we did last night. It was intense; it was on some kind of higher level, it meant more to me than sex. I want us to discover each other in a way that was taken from us too soon. You have no idea how much I was holding back this morning, darlin’, but trust me, if I get in there with you…I don’t think I could help myself.”
    I beamed, warmed by the flooding of relief through my veins just by hearing the confirmation that he had felt it, too. That last night was as perfect and intense as going round after round, orgasm after orgasm. Neither of us touched one another sexually, there was no wave of euphoria that lasted all of a few seconds before subsiding. The euphoria began when our lips first touched and lasted all night long as one continuous tidal wave, never peaking, and never easing, just pure, unbroken bliss. To know what the other wants, to have a night of intensity and exploration without the need of sex, but being pleasured just by the heat and tenderness of having the other around you and caressing…there are no words for that.
    Unbinding my fingers from his neck, I gathered the seam of the T-shirt I was sporting and lifted it up and over my body before dropping it to the flooring, then peeled my underwear down my legs. “Well,”––I hitched an innocent shoulder––“the offer is open,” and as I stepped into the tub and under the torrent, I could hear his low, rumbling chuckle, followed by the word ‘ women’ , being sighed from behind the curtain.
    Encumbered somewhat by yesterday’s grime, I surrendered myself to the gloriously addictive heat and closed my eyes, letting each scalding droplet settle on my flesh and cleanse me. Regardless of all reassuring and cherished contact emanated from Walker’s hands upon me, I wanted to wash away the thoughts and evidence of each and every violation that Liam took pleasure in undertaking from my skin. Although I knew that relieving myself from the damaged thoughts that the man shaped was going to be much harder, the torrent discharging me from the physical violations, would have to suffice.
    The mere thought of Liam’s name had my stomach flipping, and a powerful sense of foreboding cloaked me, as if I’d stepped into some ominous shadow which was going to suck the life from my very being. All I