The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 332

Her burning cheek pressed against the icy back of Gideon's hand.

The stark temperature difference brought a sigh of relief from Nora's lips. Instinctively, she rubbed her face against his skin, leaning into him without a shred of defense.

Gideon stiffened.

That scorching heat traveled through the skin of his hand, aggressively flooding into his veins and igniting the dark fire of desire he had kept forcefully suppressed beneath his ironclad logic.

"Nora, let go."

Gideon lowered his eyes, looking at her flushed face as he tried to summon back a sliver of her sanity with his words.

But Nora couldn't hear him at all. The drugs had utterly obliterated her capacity for rational thought; she only knew that the man in front of her possessed a coolness that soothed the fire inside her.

Instead of letting go, she doubled down, wrapping her arms directly around his waist.

She buried her burning face deep into his chest, greedily absorbing the chill of his body through the thin layers of his clothing.

Gideon's breathing grew heavy.

He reached out, gripping her shoulders to pry her off him.

Sensing his intent, Nora let out a wronged protest and hugged him even tighter.

She tilted her head up. In the dim glow of the wall sconces, her flushed face radiated a lethal allure.

Her misty eyes were completely clouded over, yet the name that slipped past her lips was still the one she had spent a decade chasing.

"Gideon... don't go..."

She murmured to herself as a tear slipped from the corner of her eye, tracing her cheek before splashing onto his hand.

He wouldn't allow it.

Since she had entangled herself with him, since she had taken the title of Mrs. Hayes, she could forget about ever walking away.

Feeling constrained, Nora twisted restlessly, her hands grabbing his arms and yanking downward with surprising force.

Yielding to her pull, Gideon dropped one knee onto the edge of the mattress.

He flipped his grip, capturing her wrists and pinning them against the pillows on either side of her head.

Nora's breath brushed against his hand, sending an indescribable shudder through him.

Ultimately, he surrendered to the possessive instinct that had been screaming inside him all night, abandoning his last line of defense.

Gideon slowly leaned down, pressing his cold lips against her burning ones.