Chapter 266. No Holding Back

Caleb’s POV

I watched as she backed away from me slowly, standing next to the bed with the Moonlight painting her in silver, her hair a curtain of darkness against her shoulders, eyes glowing with the unspoken kind of hunger that made my heart race and my breath shallow. She didn’t speak. She didn’t need to. Her eyes told me everything. And gods, if my legs didn’t move on their own.

I crossed the room and reached for her slowly, reverently, like she was something sacred. Because she was. She was mine, and yet, she was so much more than that. She was the air I breathed. The fire in my soul. The storm that made me feel alive.

I wrapped my arms around her waist and pressed my forehead to hers. “You sure?” I whispered, my voice raspier than I intended, barely holding back the desire that surged beneath my skin.

Her lips curled into that soft smile—the one that always disarmed me. “I want you, Caleb,” she murmured, her voice like velvet against the raw edges of my