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Chapter 49

I don't know who moves first.

One second, the world is frozen. His breath on my lips, the tension coiled so tight between us it could snap and take my fucking head off. His eyes-stormy, wild, barely restrained-burn into mine, daring me to pull away.

I don't.

And then-

Everything explodes.

His lips crash against mine with a desperation that borders on violent. A sharp gasp escapes me, but I don't fight it. Can't fight it. My fingers are in his hair before I can stop myself, yanking him closer, because fuck, I need this. I need him.

We head back to the house as he carries me with our lips together, we rush to my room like starved animals.

He growls, a low, guttural sound, and my back slams into the wall of my tiny, suffocating excuse for a room. The breath leaves my lungs, but I don't care. I don't care about anything except the way he's pressing against me, solid and burning and fucking alive.

His hands are rough-everywhere, nowhere, gripping my waist, sliding up my sides like he's memorizing me. One hand fists in my hair, tugging my head back, exposing my throat to him. My stomach clenches, heat pooling between my thighs, and then his teeth are there, grazing my skin, testing, teasing-

A strangled noise leaves me. Something between a whimper and a curse. I feel his smirk against my neck before he bites down, hard enough to send a shockwave straight to my core.

Bastard.

I retaliate, grabbing his face and biting his lower lip, not soft or teasing, but vicious. The coppery taste of blood blooms between us, but all it does is make his grip on me tighten, like he's seconds away from devouring me whole.

"Enoch," I breathe, barely recognizing my own voice-needy, desperate, wrecked. He makes a sound, half-snarl, half-moan, and that's it. That's the only warning I get before he's lifting me, one arm beneath my thighs, the other bracing against the wall. My legs wrap around his waist instinctively, holding on for dear life as he grinds against me.

I'm losing my mind.

He's losing his.

And we let it happen.

His mouth is on mine again, and I can taste everything in him-the restraint that's barely holding together, the hunger that's consuming him, the ache that neither of us knows how to soothe. His hands roam, gripping, claiming, and I let him, I fucking let him, because I need to feel something other than the emptiness that's been gnawing at me since the moment I realized I could lose him.

He pulls back, just enough to rest his forehead against mine. His breath is ragged, his fingers trembling where they dig into my hips. "Taryn

It's the first time he's said my name in full sentences since he lost his memories. My chest tightens painfully, a lump forming in my throat. But I don't ask. I don't break the moment.

Because I'm afraid of the answer.

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Instead, I reach for him again, dragging him back down, because if this is all I can have, I'll take it. Even if it kills me.

I don't know who moves first.

Maybe it's me, too fucking tired of pretending / don't want this, don't need this. Maybe it's him, giving up whatever stupid resistance he's been holding onto.

It doesn't matter.

Because the second our lips crash together again, the world fucking burns.

Enoch grips my hips like he's trying to leave bruises, dragging me closer, his breath ragged against my mouth. The room is dark, shadows flickering from the dying fire in the hearth, but I don't need light to know the way his hands feel on my body -possessive, desperate, like he's memorizing every inch of me with his fingertips.

I don't stop him.

I don't fucking want to.

I'm already burning alive, and I don't care if he's the one holding the match.

His teeth graze my lower lip, and I gasp, my head knocking back against the wooden beam behind me. Enoch follows, his mouth trailing down my throat, open-mouthed, hot. He bites-not gently, not sweetly, but with a hunger that makes my knees buckle.

I shove at his chest, not to push him away, but because I want to fight this feeling, this fucking need. "You're such a goddamn asshole," I manage, voice breathless, shaky.

He doesn't even hesitate. Just growls, low and primal, before gripping my wrists and pinning them above my head.

My pulse jumps.

"You push," he rasps, his breath searing against my skin. "I take."

Fucking hell.

His grip tightens around my wrists, holding me still as his knee slides between my

legs, pressing, forcing me to acknowledge how wet I already am.

I should

stop this.

I should demand answers, force him to talk, make him explain why he keeps

looking at me like I'm something worth breaking for.

Instead, I fucking grind against his thigh like a bitch in heat.

Enoch makes a rough, guttural noise and crashes his mouth back to mine, shoving his hands under my shirt, up my ribs, dragging his calloused fingers over my skin like he's trying to carve himself into me.

"Clothes," he mutters, his voice wrecked.

It takes my dazed brain a second to catch up. Then he's yanking my shirt over my head, and I'm pulling at his, and we're a mess of hands and gasping breaths, frantic and clumsy in the dark. My back hits the bed before I even realize he's moved us, and then he's on top of me, covering me, devouring me.

His fingers slip beneath the waistband of my shorts.

I arch up, impatient. "Fucking do something-"

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He does.

He rips them off like they offended him.

Jesus.

hip bone before moving lower. My head slams back against the

My breath shatters.

lazy circles that make my thighs tremble. He groans

I can't fucking think.

anything but arch into his mouth, into the press of his tongue and the way his hands grip my thighs like he's holding me in place, like he doesn't trust me not to

As if I could.

I'd ever want

his tongue, sliding inside me, stretching, curling in a way

my body winding

scratching against his scalp.

God, Enoch-"

He sucks

my

mouth, and

register him crawling

are blown wide, lips slick with

fingers down my cheek, then lower, pressing against my swollen lips.

a chance to respond before he kisses me again, deep and filthy

his pants down, positioning himself between my thighs, and- fuck. He's big, hot, the tip of his

I should be scared.

I'm not.

my nails into his back. "Enoch," I whisper, daring

Something in him snaps.

with precum and towers over me with an ominous look on

it on my entrance

entire cock in, all

in shock, half in pleasure. He's thick, stretching me, filling me, making

away, his forehead dropping to mine, his breaths coming in sharp, uneve holding on.

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ants. Like he's barely

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I demand, voice

He does.

letting me adjust, but it doesn't take long before we're both desperate, both lost in it. His thrusts turn hard.

I groan.

frantic and

to make me gasp. My nails rake down his back, desperate to mark him, to leave something behind in case this is the last

I don't know

know if this is just desperation, if it's just loneliness

onto

But I don't care.

when he's fucking me like

he's dragging me under, drowning

rhythm stutters, his breath catching, and I know he's close. I clench

my heels into his

like a prayer, like a

me.

The world tilts.

tangled mess of limbs and sweat and

me, grounding, and I

barely a touch, barely anything at

I close my eyes.

And let myself pretend.

***

The world is quiet.

It shouldn't be.

not after the way we tore

body is sore in places I didn't even know could

I don't want to.

his weight pinning me to the bed, his face buried in

against my skin, slow and steady now, unlike the frantic,

something. Maybe something snarky,

let the silence settle around us, let

mine.

Like he knows, like he feels it too—this fleeting moment where nothing outside this bed fucking

is thick, heavy with something unspoken. I exhale, fingers ghosting

his back, tracin

lines of muscle, the

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I left behind. A sick, satisfied part of me likes seeing my marks on him. Proof

pillow,

storm outside has calmed, but

can be like this

slithers in before I can stop

lingers. One that makes my chest

hard, dragging in a

I whisper, barely realizing I

"Forever."

Enoch stiffens.

but I fucking feel it. The moment those

against mine. His fingers twitch against my hip before

that, the warmth is

sits up, shifting his weight off me, running

of his

My stomach twists.

shouldn't have

I push myself up on my

away. He just stares at the

he's lost somewhere I can't follow. When he finally speaks, his voice

Rough.

"Not... forever."

sharp lodges itself in my

breath, ignoring the way my

looking away. And that's what fucking

away. Not from me. Not from

fingers curl into the

don't know who I am," he murmurs. "Don't remember. His hand

frustration leaking into his tone. "But I know... I made

heart

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