Solar Flare

A kiss ignited the second fire that licked Edward's bones senseless and broke through the carefully planned breaks that were supposed to have contained the need, the want and the thirst for her. Obsession was the catalyst that fueled the flame and spent the oxygen in the room. Where he could not have dreamed, if he were so allowed, to hope that her yearning was as great as his and her torments for his body so complete. But at last, when her shields parted and she took him inside, he could feel her ache, a searing prominence rising about her. Proof, he thought, of her theorem that their joining was inevitable and right, because they were the halves of but one soul.


Written for Round 1 of the Twilight Saga - Last Author Standing (LAS) Challenge; 122 words

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