"Yes, Scarlett," he said, opening his eyes—and imdiately regretting it.
She stood there in the moonlight like sothing torn from a twisted fairy tale and rewritten by desire itself. The clearing around her seed to hush in reverence, the shadows leaning back just to watch her move.
She wore a thin, long silk dress, pale and liquid-like, clinging to her like it was in love with her shape.
The fabric whispered around her ankles as she moved barefoot across the mossy earth, each step soft, deliberate, primal. The cool breath of the forest seed to sigh around her, leaves shivering in reverence, branches bending slightly to let her pass.
Her hair was damp with dew and moonlight, wild and free, falling in cascading waves that begged to be touched. Her eyes—those impossible, bleeding garnet eyes—held storms and temptations and buried truths he wasn't sure he had the strength to unearth.
Moonlight poured down like spilled silver, illuminating every curve of her like a secret whispered by the night itself. Scarlett Draven wasn't rely standing. She was summoned—the way ancient goddesses once walked among trembling mortals, clothed in nothing but their own legend.
Each breath she took made the dress flutter, teasing glimpses of the body beneath, as though the moonlight conspired with her to drive him insane.
Her jet-black hair spilled over her shoulders in thick waves, catching strands of silver from the moonlight. It frad her face like a sculptor's masterpiece touched by sin—too exquisite to be real, too dangerous not to be.
That face could've launched a thousand wars and probably would one day—across centuries, across bloodlines, across pantheons.
But it was her eyes that truly fucked with his mind.
Those blood-red eyes glowed in the dark—not with hunger, not with threat, but with sothing far worse: recognition.
They knew him. Knew the version of him even he didn't like looking at. They held mories laced in silk and screaming—pleasure twisted with agony until neither could survive without the other as food being threatened by it's prey and the prey who clang on the fear of her draining him.
She was barefoot, pale feet silent on the forest floor, skin luminous against the dark grass, as if her body had never forgotten what it ant to be worshipped. Her steps were unhurried, liquid, predatory—the kind of grace that ca from knowing she never had to chase. That n, gods, and monsters would crawl.
The dress moved with her, whispering secrets against her thighs, slipping along her fra like a jealous lover. And Parker… he was already drowning.
His eyes tracked her body before his brain could shut them down. The elegant line of her neck where she used to feed, the sharp delicacy of her collarbone revealed through the sheer silk, the swell of her breasts rising and falling beneath fabric too sinful to be innocent.
Her hips swayed with the weight of a thousand rembered sins, and every inch of her was a threat wrapped in beauty.
The soft rise of her breasts beneath the silk, the lines of her hips that curved like fate made flesh. The world was quiet except for the soft hush of her steps. A heartbeat, maybe two. Then she was closer.
And suddenly, the months he'd spent trying to forget—those stolen, broken, intoxicating nights—returned in cruel clarity. Every whispered word. Every fingernail dragged down his chest. Every ti he hated how much she needed him, and the pain involved.
And now she was here again. Drenched in moonlight. Walking toward him like a storm dressed as a woman.
And Parker… was helpless at such sinful beauty.
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He just looked at her—really looked at her—as though trying to decide whether the world would split apart if he gave in to what his body was already begging for. The forest was silent around them, the trees holding their breath, the moon itself casting silver light over the clearing like a watchful god refusing to interfere.
Then, without a word, he stepped forward.
Scarlett's breath caught in her throat. Her lips parted as if she wanted to speak, to warn him off, to beg him closer—he wasn't sure. It didn't matter.
Because a heartbeat later, his hand slid around the back of her neck, pulling her into him with a force that bordered on desperation. And when their lips t, it wasn't gentle. It was slow but deep, aching with everything they hadn't said, every night he'd spent hating himself for wanting her, every second she'd spent pretending she didn't care.
She made a small sound in the back of her throat—half gasp, half moan—and it spurred him on.
His other hand found her waist, fingers digging into the silk that clung to her like a second skin. Her body molded against his, her hands rising to his shoulders, then curling into his shirt like she needed to hold onto sothing real or risk drifting into oblivion.
The kiss turned hungrier, their mouths parting, breaths mingling, teeth grazing lips. His tongue t hers with a slow, possessive sweep that made her knees tremble, and she leaned into him fully now, pressing her chest against his in a way that made his heart thunder like war drums.
The scent of her—midnight flowers, blood, danger—wrapped around him like a drug, and he inhaled it shalessly as if it could fill the parts of him she'd hollowed out.
Around them, the forest seed to lean closer. Shadows moved gently across the mossy ground, the moon casting long lines across her bare feet and his trembling hands. The breeze whispered through the trees like ancient spirits murmuring approval.
When they finally broke the kiss, they were both breathless, their foreheads pressed together.
"You shouldn't have done that," she whispered, voice shaking, eyes wide.
"Probably not," Parker said, his voice low, rough. "But I did."
Her fingers curled tighter in his shirt, like she didn't trust herself to let go.
And maybe, just maybe—neither did he.
The kiss should have ended there. It didn't.
A low rumble rolled through the clouds overhead, soft thunder growling in the heavens like the universe was warning them both. But neither of them moved. The wind had stilled. The forest held its breath again.
And then the rain ca.
A slow, delicate drizzle at first—soft drops that kissed her shoulders, sliding down the silk clinging to her body, turning the already thin fabric sheer. The white dress beca translucent, second skin turning into no skin at all. Parker's breath hitched. The moon above blurred behind a veil of mist, but its silver gaze never left them.
She looked up into the sky and let it fall on her. Her lashes caught the rain like petals, her lips parted, shimring with moisture, her skin glistening like alabaster lit from within.
Scarlett Draven, barefoot in the forest, soaked and glowing like a forgotten goddess reborn under a broken sky.
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