Chapter 14 Fourteen

• Carmen
• The kiss was more passionate than any I'd experienced, his mouth consuming mine, his tongue taking full control. I no longer felt my legs, goosebumps prickling every inch of skin. The humming buzz of the shared electricity increased, threatening to explode all around us. He was demanding in every action, brutal in every manner.
• I was no longer the girl who believed in finding a hero, just a woman who accepted who and what she'd been turned into. It was as if he could see right through me, peeling away all the layers I'd fashioned around me for years, picking apart the pieces.