#Chapter Nineteen
Her hand left his but his hand continued to caress her cheek. The heat from his hand warmed her cold cheek and her breath escaped from within her chest. His eyes were feral and she returned his gaze with a tight look. He put his thumb into her mouth and his hold on her face tensed up. Biting onto his thumb, Kitty glared at Gunner and willed him to do something about the desire she knew they were both feeling in their bones. She bit harder down into his thumb and he applied pressure, forcing her mouth open.
Closing the distance between them, his other hand reached out to the back of her head and he grabbed onto the mass of hair. She had tied her hair up in a small bun that sat above her nape and he dug his fingers into it. Yanking her hair down, he forced her face upwards to look at him as he stood above her.
"Dreaming about this, haven't you?" Gunner whispered to her, his hot breath grazing her lips.
"No, I haven't."
"Pretty liar," he said and drew back from her face. She inched closer but he was holding onto the back of her hair and he kept her firmly on the couch.
"Please," she said. "I can't take it anymore."
"Tell me what you want me to do."
"Kiss me," she panted. "Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me."
"What if I don't want to?"
"Fuck, Gunner," she breathed, her core tightening. "Please."
His other hand left her mouth and he dropped it down to her throat. Covering her throat easily with one hand, he pressed onto it and hovered his mouth over hers.
"Beg me, Kitty," he said. "Beg me to kiss you."
"Please," she said, almost out of breath. "I beg you, please fucking kiss me already!"
He crashed his mouth onto hers and the fire inflamed her insides, shooting through her entire body until it melted into his kiss, bleeding into the burn of his lips, turning everything in her body into liquid. Her body trembled as his tongue swiped over her lips before pushing into her mouth. She sucked on his lips and bit into them and he let out a moan that caused ripples of desire to wreck her small body. She shuddered and shivered, and his grip on her throat tightened as he pulled her head further down to deepen their kiss.
For the first time ever, she was truly alive.