Page 64 of Marked for Execution

Reed kissed my neck slowly, traveling down to my shoulder, and my heart skipped a beat. His hands moved from the back of my neck, down to the underside of my breast over my shirt, making me pant. My nipples were so hard, the cold of the night didn’t help.

This was so wrong.But it seemed ever since Eliseo had his way with me, I became so horny. As if it had become the answer to all my worries. Eliseo had conditioned me, and I didn’t hate it.

Reed’s lips went across my jaw until he fisted my hair and slammed his lips against mine. Though just as dominating, his kisses were different. There was a rhythm to the way his tongue danced inside my mouth that I found myself leaning in, wanting more.

Eliseo groaned, and the spell was broken. I pulled away, my mind confused about everything. My lips felt swollen from Reed’s kiss as I licked my bottom lip.

“If you don’t stop looking at me like that, I’m going to fuck you right here next to him,” Reed said with a guttural voice.

“Sili, no.Sili…” I jumped away from Reed, bumping into Eliseo’s arm. Turning, I found him in a fever dream, his eyes still closed.

Cradling his face, I leaned in to watch his eyes move rapidly behind his lids. Reed left us as I continued to give Eliseo my full attention.

“Come back to me. Open your eyes, Eliseo.”

His eyes fluttered, and hope bloomed in my chest. “Eliseo, please.”

“Sili,” he whispered. He was not waking up, but he could hear me, right? He’s responding. “I need to tell her…”

“Eliseo!” I kissed him all over his face and massaged his shoulders, trying to stimulate him. What I really wanted to do is shake him until he opened his damn eyes for me.

He groaned and my sadness and fear morphed into anger—anger over the shitty hand life had dealt me. Lost in my emotions, I climbed on top of Eliseo and brought us skin to skin. I needed him. I needed him so badly to keep me sane. He was the strength I didn’t know I had—the only one who saw me for who I was and what I had to offer besides my body. He trained me, built my confidence.He couldn’t leave me now.

His body temperature mixed with my own. I grabbed his face and kissed him, hard, invading his mouth with my tongue, needing him to fulfill that hole Reed left in me earlier.

He groaned, but his eyes stayed closed. Suddenly, his hands crawled up my leg and grabbed my hips, pulling me against him, grinding my pussy against the crotch of his pants.

“You’re going to have to wake me up like this every time,Sili,” he said against my lips weakly and I laughed-cried against his lips.

“I love your little body taking advantage of me, but can you get off for a minute? My leg hurts like a motherfucking bitch.”

Laughing, I gave him one last kiss before climbing off. We both stared at his right leg and noticed that the blood pooling out of the bandage had multiplied.

“Fuck.”

Worry crept into my mind again, until an idea popped in. Crawling down, I bit my own wrist, groaning against my skin. Pulling my blade out of my boot, I cut away Eliseo’s bandages. Placing my wrist above the wound, I squeezed it with my other hand to get more of the blood out. The pain mixed with pleasure as I watched my blood drip inside.

“What the hell are you doing? Are you out of your damn mind,Sili?”

He tried to kick me away, but I slammed my hand down on his left leg, holding it in place.Come on, come on. If my blood heals, it should heal him too, right?My eyes prick with tears as nothing happened.

“Do you feel anything? Is anything happening?” I asked Eliseo frantically.

“Woman, if you don’t get your ass up here right now, I’mma feel more than pissed off that you did that.”

My skin itched as it stitched itself back together, sealing my life source back where it belonged. My hands covered my face as I sobbed out loud at the hopelessness.I couldn’t even do something as simple as heal the person I cared about? What good were these stupid abilities?

“Sili, get your ass up here.”

Climbing up, I nestled myself against him, crying silent tears as he rubbed my back in comfort. I laughed a little at the messed-up situation. I should be comforting him right now, not the other way around.

He kissed the top of my head, pulled me across his body so that I could use him as a mattress. We both lay that way until we both succumbed to much-needed sleep.

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We ran out of gas a few miles away from making it back. Of course, this was how it happened. Eliseo had been awake thus far, limping along as we trekked back home on foot.

“Sili, I need to tell you something.”