Sinful Sounds In The Dark

n above them, and silence

and falling in sharp rhythm. He hadn't moved since Sebastian disap

ho ruined your life

d once,

he think y

let him shape my voice. I let him own it. My songs, my name, my f

hit like

ot just with fear now-but something d

appened

it quickly. "She was everything I wasn't-braver, smarter. She saw the lies before I did. Tr

ran cold. "He

ave. She overdosed. Alone. After they blacklisted us both, after the

e yourself,"

swer. He did

the one that had played Mara's voic

t." His voi

, in this ruin of a music hall, it was a differen

id quietly. "But I won

should. You don't know w

show

ch. When she didn't, something shifted between them-hot

r into a kiss that was punishment and confession wrapped in one. It wasn't sweet. It was

d him bac

the old piano bench. Her legs wrapped around him without thoug

wn gently as she gasped. Her fingers tugged at his shirt, slipping benea

happening," he grow

it

t safe

s face back t

attered like

m apart. Gabriel stepped back, eye

e's sti

bench, nerves ting

ow. But we

d through another hidden door and emerged into a shadowy stairwell that

orm had quieted

eel door. They stepped out into an alley littered with so

walked briskly toward the s

re no one c

-sleek, black, dangerous. G

st me?"

it on. "N

rked.

he city. Every turn was reckless. Every red light a dare. Lily clung

se near the water. Not lux

instruments on every surface, and a wall lined with records

ered desk. "You're the first pers

elmet. "And you're still

he luxury of le

hy am I

her. "Because I co

ween them i

was slower.

. His fingers tangled in her hair. She met him halfwa

rs-long and thin, slicing across his r

o this?"

When I tried to b

erently. "You stayed

ked in and rui

nst his mouth.

he cold bricks against her back, his heat pressing against

n't ju

as n

fe

elt dangerously clos

n, sweat still cooling between them. Gabriel's arm draped across he

yed with anyon

," Lily whis

d her temple. "Tha

d into silence-u

resting on the pi

ame o

familiar h

ly, skin prickl

owed he

fr

sn't her

s trembling. She picked up

a torn p

f Mara

a

hear h

ell into d

oked at

's watch

nd what she saw the

recog