Page 89 of Dark Fey Captive

She nodded and rested her arms around me. I liked when she held me. I liked everything she did. Except for going outside to talk to the humans. That I never wanted her to do again.

As if she were reading my mind, she said, “I think I need to go to the docks to leave another note for my friends. I don’t want them to send anyone else.”

I grunted, not letting her go. She didn’t try to leave either. She rested her head on my chest, over my thundering heart.

“I’m glad you’re okay,” she said after several moments of silence. “I don’t know what I would have done if something had happened to you.”

She might not know, but I did. She would return to her friends, leaving me forever.

“Nothing will happen to me,” I said, standing.

She cuddled in my arms as I carried her down the hall and grinned at me as I knelt at her feet to help dress her, kissing her skin before I covered it. She played with the tip of my ear, which made me wish for her mouth again.

After she finished eating, I took her outside. She glanced toward the fence, but quickly looked away from the new pile I’d made.

“I will move them when Belak returns,” I promised.

She nodded and tucked her face against my chest as I ran with her toward the other end of the street. The small gasp that escaped her when I jumped over the fence teased my cock.

We didn’t see any infected until we reached Main Street. Several were wandering by the building with the bedrooms. I jumped onto the store’s roof across the street.

“Stay here.” I kissed her forehead. “Cover your eyes.”

“Okay. No more bites. And try not to get gooey.”

I grunted in acknowledgment and jumped down. As I removed their heads, I heard the faint sound of an engine. It wasn’t coming from the south like the previous days but from the north. From the water.

Fear pooled low in my gut as I finished off the last infected and tossed its head aside. If Arena saw her friends, would she want to leave with them? I glanced at her. She was standing on the roof where I’d left her. She wasn’t covering her eyes, but watching me. When she noticed my attention, she smiled and waved.

My chest tightened. I didn’t want her to leave.

I wanted her to stay. To love me as I loved her.

With a sprinting start, I ran up the side of the building and joined her.

“What’s wrong?” she asked. “You look worried.”

“I hear an engine.”

She turned toward the south.

“Are they really that stupid to come back? I would have thought the conk on the head would have knocked some sense into him.”

“Not them. It’s your friends. If you want to go to them, I will take you to the dock,” I said, unable to keep what I was feeling from my voice.

She turned to look at me, her gaze seeing everything. My reluctance. My desperation. I couldn’t hide it anymore.

Her lips curved in a soft smile. The same kind she gave me after she came on my tongue.

“Are you trying to get rid of me?” she asked.

I grabbed her and pulled her into my arms, caging her…keeping her where she belonged. Against me. With me.

“Never. I want to keep you forever.”

Her hands moved over my back.

“I know. And I’m willing to stay with you. But I need to talk to them. They need to know what happened so they can protect themselves.” She looked up at me. “But I want to talk to them alone, Nav. Please. And I need you to promise you won’t make them stay.”