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Chapter Fourteen
Sydney found Kellan in Lucas’s bedroom, kicked back on the bed with his arms behind his head, and Lucas nowhere in sight.
See what I get for doing a load of laundry in order to give them privacy? I missed out on all the good stuff. She’d been gone less than ten minutes, but she’d wanted to wash the outfit she’d worn the night of Emily’s bloodletting. Err, turning.
Which reminded her, she had to address that topic again with Kellan. Unless she intended to remain half-vamped forever.
She cleared her throat and waited until he glanced her way. Sunlight slashed over his chiseled cheekbones and dipped into the shallow dent on his chin. He was truly a gorgeous man, and he was all hers. Or would be, she hoped, after she stopped letting sex speak for her and managed to tell him how she truly felt.
“Where’s Luke?”
“My guess? Doing a futile search of Emily’s apartment.”
She walked over to the bed and sat down beside him. Idly, she stroked his hair. “You told him about Budapest, didn’t you?”
“I owed him that much.”
Sighing, she curled up against his side and rested her head on his chest when he wrapped his arm around her. “Why does it have to be so difficult for them?”
“Like it’s been a cakewalk for us?” Amusement laced the question. “Unless I’m mistaken, you ran out of here in your nightgown with your ex-boyfriend and didn’t contact me for weeks. Weeks I spent mostly in bed.”
She peered up at him. “You did not.”
“I did so. I’d say to ask Luke, but he has other things on his mind at the moment.”
“Why didn’t you come after me?”
“You expected me to,” he replied simply, cupping her cheek to bring her mouth to his.
His lips were warm and soft and he still tasted of her coffee. She knew he drank more of it when he was agitated, and they’d both certainly had cause. At least for the moment they could enjoy each other without worrying about the future or the past mistakes they couldn’t change.
As his tongue slipped into her mouth, she tugged it deeper, sucking hard. He groaned and shifted until she was beneath him on the mattress. Her short sundress tangled around her hips as they rolled over Lucas’s bed, laughing and kissing and pulling at clothes until both were naked and hot skin rubbed against hot skin. She moaned when he took her nipple between his teeth, tugging and twisting while need flared deep in her pussy.
“Kellan,” she whispered, closing her hand around as much of his thick, hard length as she could manage. “I want you to take me hard enough to make me forget the weeks we spent apart.”
His head lifted, gold eyes glittering like the sun. “Such things you ask of me.”
“I think you’re up to the task.” A soft giggle escaped her before she bit her lip against the laughter lurking in her throat.
She shouldn’t be laughing now. Her best friend was on her unholy quest, a newly turned vampire and alone for all intents and purposes. And poor Luke. Though Syd didn’t doubt he would find Emily, there was no guarantee he’d get there in time.
That wasn’t even taking her own predicament into account. She was like a vampire orphan, with no one to take her home.
Maybe she should have argued more with Emily, even insisted that she and Kellan accompany her, although she hadn’t wanted anyone else to know about her stepfather and her plans. But still. She shouldn’t be alone, not now. And here she was rolling around Lucas’s bed, happily nude, with the man she loved.
“Syd?” Kellan rolled his thumb over her lower lip. “Where did you go?”
“I’m sorry.”
He pulled her as close as possible and buried his face in her hair. “You don’t have to be sorry. I’m thinking about them, too. And us. What it all means.”
“Not now.” She wriggled against him, moving up and down until the tip of his cock brushed her wet entrance. “I want you. Actually, no. I need you.”
“I need you, too. Always.” He kissed her hungrily, his fingers cradling her cheeks. “More than I ever thought possible.”
She wrapped her legs around his waist and arched against him in blatant invitation. “Please.”
“The pleasure’s mine,” he said, and thrust deep, swallowing her gasp at his forceful penetration. He reared back and did it again and again until her whimpers echoed in her head. She cupped her own breasts to relieve the ceaseless ache in her core, pushing her nipples together for him to tease and tantalize.
