Love in the Light is a success story where a highly anticipated sequel is concerned. It’s hard for me to believe that I read Hearts in Darkness almost four years ago! In March of 2012, I had just discovered Goodreads and was just sticking my toe in the romance pool. Up until that time, I had read mostly nonfiction (biographies etc) and some mainstream fiction and then I jumped on the Fifty Shades train and the romance genre was busted wide open for me. Hearts in Darkness has always stood out in my brain as far as romance is concerned because I loved and I wanted more from Cayden and Makenna. I’m pretty sure that I was resigned to the fact that there wasn’t going to be a follow-up and I was okay with that.
Fast forward to 2015 and the news that we are getting the conclusion to their story and here we are! The short story of this review is that I LOVED this lovely piece of Cayden and Makenna’s love story. After reading Darkness, you had to know that it wasn’t going to be as easy as we’d like to think between them. I re-read Darkness before Light, just to refresh my memory of their meeting and simply because I enjoyed it.
Cayden has some major issues to deal with and after two blissful months of living together, Cayden’s issues are not going to be ignored any longer, especially after meeting her family at Thanksgiving. He questions whether he is worthy of Makenna- plain and simple. The man has some work to do on himself and he eventually pulls away from Makenna due to his PTSD and depression.
You know, it’s hard when you have things that you have to deal with and you’re the only one that can do that work. Why pull someone down into the pit with you? What if that person loves you endlessly and will go down into the pit with you? That’s Makenna.
Needless to say, there is a fair amount of angst and drama created by Cayden’s situation but not so much that it was too much. He had work to do within himself that had to be done in order for him to move forward in his relationship/future with Makenna.
I enjoyed this book as much, if not MORE than Darkness. The sexytimes were almost incendiary and my Kindle was smokin’!!! I’m so glad that Ms. Kaye gave us the rest of Makenna and Cayden’s love story and it was totally worth the wait!
Mandy
Makenna unbuttoned her jeans, pushed them down, and took them off altogether, leaving her standing there in an oversized, faded red and blue Penn sweatshirt that was just long enough to cover her panties. “You should get undressed, too,” she said, coming to Caden and starting on the buttons of his shirt.
Press and release, press and release. Until she was pulling his shirt from his dress pants and exposing his skin.
She gave a little moan and kissed the center of his chest. “Just like unwrapping a present.” She trailed a line of kisses and licks from one nipple to the other.
“Fuck, Makenna,” he whispered. “What are you doing?”
“Tasting you,” she said.
The words were like a blowtorch to his blood. He was hard in an instant. “We can’t,” he said, though his hands went to the back of her head, encouraging her, guiding her as she continued to kiss and tease and drive him wild with her mouth.
“We can if we’re quiet.” Slowly, she dropped to her knees and bared him to mid-thigh. She took his cock in hand and gripped him firmly, tearing a soft grunt from his throat. “I’ve been wanting you all day,” she whispered, her lips teasing his head with soft kisses. “Wanting to touch you and kiss you and hold you. I can’t hold back anymore.” She licked him from root to tip. Once, twice, three times. And then she sucked him into her mouth.
It felt so fucking good that Caden’s hands flew to her hair, digging in, grabbing hold. She moaned at the contact and pushed herself deeper, burying his cock in the back of her throat. The intensity of it nearly took his knees out from underneath of him.
Makenna pulled off his length. “Lay down on the floor.”
He was too far gone to debate the wisdom of having sex in her father’s house. He needed this. He needed her. He needed the connection and the coming together of the act. Caden locked the door, took the rest of his clothes off, and spread himself out on the beige carpet.
She undressed, too, all that beautiful red hair spilling around the bare porcelain of her shoulders and making him think of peaches and cream. And, fuck, he was starving.
Caden grasped his length. “Take me back in your mouth.”
He didn’t have to ask twice. Makenna settled herself between his legs and wrapped her lips around his cock. She sucked him deep and slow, than fast and shallow, her baby blues flashing up at him so fucking sexy. He needed to see her eyes, so he fisted her hair into a ponytail to keep it out of her face. He used his grip to urge her harder, faster, deeper. He needed it. God, he needed it. And she took it. She took everything he gave her and so much more.
“Fuck, Red, I’m gonna come if you don’t stop,” he whispered.
She pulled off him, her lips shiny and swollen. “I want you inside me first,” she said, already
crawling up his body.
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