Chapter 189
INT. - RAY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Cici stood in the darkness, looking down at Ray's sleeping face. Beloved face, so sweet and open in her rest. Cici's chest tightened, choking off her air while her body trembled softly in the faint moonlight reaching through the tall window next to the bed.
Her phone buzzed in her hand. She'd been expecting this text, dreading it. Hating and longing for it all at once. Even as her heart shattered, rebuilt, died all over again, pain and pleasure mixed inside her. The newly wakened power she possessed groaned its sorrow as she looked down at the glowing screen, thumb swiping across the glass, revealing the message.
Is she ours? Simone's crisp question might as well have been spoken in her smooth, rich voice. Just reading the words made Cici shiver, bite her lower lip, clutch at one full breast with her free hand while her soul shuddered.