Phei smiled against the air above her throat, the expression slow, wicked, and full of promise.
"Darling," he murmured, "I fully intend to make you forget every other song you've ever known… and replace it with the sound of my name breaking on your tongue."
"I trust you too much to worry it would anything if not otherworldly." Melissa said with soft trusting smile on her visage.
Hell's Paradise glittered beneath them outside, its towers and roads smouldering in gold and silver, and that light painted the underside of her jaw until she looked almost unreal, suspended between his arms and the city's obscene glow.
Her lips parted on a breath she did not quite release, and for one clear, crystalline second, the entire world reduced itself to the beautiful geometry of her body held aloft in his hands and the absolute certainty that he would never let her fall.
