Mike’s hands clenched on the phone and Mollie’s knee. He longed to take her mortality from her and make her stronger, but he couldn’t. “No.”
Mollie frowned when Mike’s tension ratcheted up, but she hadn’t heard what irritated him.
“That’s probably not a good move,” Liam said.
“It’s the one I’m going to make,” Mike stated. “I have to go now. We still have a lot to take care of here. I’ll call you when I get a new cell phone; if I can find one in this town.”
“Be careful.”
“I will,” Mike said and hung up.
He kissed the top of Mollie’s head before rising. He couldn’t stand to be apart from her but being too close was also difficult as she was a temptation he had to resist.
“We have to get supplies,” he said, and she nodded.
Chapter Forty-Six
He tookthe two of them to the clothing store the clerk told him about earlier. He didn’t dare leave the sisters alone in the motel while they were still so close to the island. There could be more possible enemies here, or the Savages could send out humans and security in search of their escapees.
Mollie picked the lock on the back door of the small clothing/grocery store that also sold bait and feed for livestock. They each took some clean clothes from the racks, sneakers, and Mollie stole some bandages for her arm before they returned to the motel to shower.
Hopefully, no one would notice the missing articles of clothing. The last thing they needed was to be seen around town wearing stolen clothes. Staying here would attract the attention of the locals, as he doubted they got many visitors in town, and being labeled as thieves would not be good as he couldn’t change the memories ofeveryonehere.
When they were showered and changed into their new jeans and long-sleeved shirts, they went in search of food for Mollie and Aida as well as himself. The only restaurant in town, a small diner named Musco’s, was still open; two other customers were inside.
Mike’s wounds were healing, but he required blood. While Mollie and Aida ate pancakes and sausages, Mike fed on the staff and the customers before erasing their memories of the encounter.
Back at the hotel, he left Mollie and Aida in the third room while he returned to the second and closed the door. Glutted on blood and healing fast, he called Liam back to tell him he hadn’t been able to locate a cell phone. Mike doubted there was any cell phone service here as, after capturing them, the Savages took them further north.
* * *
Mollie saton the edge of the bed as she rested her hands on her knees and gazed at the closed door between her room and Mike’s. Ever since they arrived in this town, she’d felt Mike pulling away from her, but she didn’t know why.
“He’s a good man, for a vampire,” Aida said as she sat on the edge of her bed and flipped idly through the three TV channels.
“Would you stay with him and his family?”
Aida’s hand stilled on the remote as she gazed at the TV. “Do we have any other choice?”
“We could figure out something else.”
Aida started flipping through the channels again. “As long as they don’t try to eat us, I’ll be fine staying with his family.”
“They won’t.”
“That’s what they said about the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park too.”
Mollie chuckled. “Mike’s older than us, but he’s not Jurassic old.”
A small smile curved the corner of Aida’s mouth before it slid away. “He wants you to stay with him forever.”
Mollie took a deep breath before plunging in. “I want that too.”
Aida’s hand froze on the button before her head turned slowly toward Mollie. “As in youwantto be a vampire?”
“Yes.”
“Are you serious?”
