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His hair was longer, and the beard was new. His muscles were larger and more defined. Those eyes and those lips though, I’d know them anywhere, fully confirmed by the word COLT on his cut.
Oh, my God.
Tears sprang to my eyes. I lifted out of my chair without thinking, but Carmela smacked me back down. “What are you doing?” she hissed.
She was right. I had to keep my cool. If I needed oxygen, I’d have already passed out from not breathing. He literally took my breath away.
Colton also seemed to have frozen on the spot, not breaking eye contact with me.
Where had he been this whole time? Held prisoner by this motorcycle gang for ten years? Was he right here in the Crescent City the whole time?
Viper pounded a gavel and Colton’s gaze turned hard and broke from mine to look at what I presumed was his clan leader, or boss.
While Viper asked us to stand individually and give our stories to the rest of his… club, I robotically complied when it was my turn, and other than that, my eyes never left Colton. My long, lost love. The man of my dreams and nightmares. The one that got away.
After begging Carmela to keep Orvis busy, I rush into the clubhouse after the “church” was adjourned to seek out Colton. I found him talking to the tall redhead named Phoenix with the massive muscles who created fire.
I gently touch Colton’s arm. “Hi, can we talk somewhere?”
He looked at Phoenix. “I’ll be right back.”
I fast-walked out the clubhouse door, and once I saw it was closed, I launched myself into his arms, inhaling his familiar scent. He caught me and buried his face in my hair.
“Please… please tell me you don’t have another girl. Please tell me you had to go missing because you were turned,” I murmured into his neck, my tears wetting his cold skin.
“Fuck, Ava. I’ve thought about you every day for the past ten years. I can’t believe you’re here.”
I pulled back and looked at him through misty eyes. “Can we get out of here? Please? I need to talk to you.”
He grabbed my waist, setting me on the ground. Then, he took my hand, leading me around to the back of the building. I watched as he disarmed a motorcycle. “Hop on.”
We rode in silence to the riverside, and when he parked and killed the engine, I hopped off. He took my hand and led me to the water’s edge, where we found a bench. He sat, and when I went to sit next to him, he pulled me into his lap. It was like no time between us had passed at all.
I looked into his face, his eyes searching mine.
After a deep breath, I said, “Where the hell have you been, Colton?”
“Pretty much everywhere, beautiful. I’m assuming you’ve put together what happened to me that night?”
I ran my fingers through his beard, which was new, but so hot. “Yes, vamp attacked you? Turned you?”
“Not just any vamp. Orvis’s vamp. Kept me for a few weeks, but I escaped.”
My eyes widened. “What? And you didn’t come get me? Take me with you?”
He blinked at me, incredulous. “Are you serious? I could have killed you!”
“You could have turned me!” I snapped, gesturing to my body. “I was turned anyway. We lost ten years because of that asshole!”
“Shh,” he soothed running a hand down my face with the backs of his fingers. “I see you’re in his clan. When did he do this?”
“About four years ago. I went looking for you… he lured me into a dark shop on Bourbon. Told me he knew where you were. Then attacked.” I looked down, my bottom lip wobbling. “I was only trying to find you. I’ve missed you so much.”
Instead of responding, he closed the small distance between our faces and kissed me. His beard tickled my cheek but I didn’t care. Our lips moved in sync, just like old times. His tongue demanded entry and massaged mine as we kissed. I straddled him on the bench as his hand reached up and under my tank top, massaging my braless breast.
I moaned, instantly getting wet under his touch. Since becoming a vampire, I’d had such a heightened sexual drive. It was easy to evade Orvis’s sexual advances, but not the advances of others. But those were nothing like this.
Colton, the owner of my heart, the keeper of my body, had come back to claim me. I yanked at his belt buckle, sliding it open and then unbuttoning his jeans. I ran the zipper down and yanked his hard, throbbing cock from inside, wrapping my fist around it, my thumb swirling the wetness at the tip.
