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“I’m fine. Let’s go.”

I lead her to my plain-looking car, one of many. It doesn’t screamhitmanat all.

She smiles when I hold the door open for her.

“Manners at a time like this?”

I laugh, meeting her eyes. There’s so much complexity in the way she looks at me, with the fear and the anxiety and the…thewant, the need, the same thing that’s swirling inside me.

But all of this could be projection, hope, nothing more.

I climb into the driver’s seat and start the engine.

Then I look over at my woman. She’s watching me, her lips slightly parted, looking a little sore – in a tempting-as-hell way – from our kissing.

I can’t help it.

She moansbeforewe kiss this time, as though the anticipation is blazing through her, and that just makes it even hotter. I snarl like a beast through the closeness of our lips, our tongues feasting on each other.

Suddenly, my hand’s on her leg, despite our public presence. Despite the fact that there’s ahit on her head.

With a superhuman effort, I manage to move my hand away, leaning back.

“We can’t,” I say.

Not yet.

“I have to keep you safe.”

“Is this anything to do with Julie, my friend?” she asks. “Who would want to kill me? I don’t get it.”

“I don’t know,” I say.

“Which part?”

“Both,” I tell her. “I’ve got no idea. But we’ll find out.”

I pull out of the parking spot.

“Wait, where are we going? My house is the other way.”

“We’re not going to your house,” I growl, picking up speed.

CHAPTERSEVEN

Freya

It’s like I’ve slipped into some sort of an alternate reality. It’s difficult to keep up with everything, from the kissing to the idea that somebody wants me dead.

I learned thatminutesafter I spoke to Julie….

They have to be connected, surely.

But now Felix is telling me he’s not taking me home.

I stare at him, my lips tingling from the kiss, my body feeling sensitive. Each small bump in the road sends a jolt through me, making me think of shifting like that in Felix’s lap, grinding against him….

Being the woman I promised myself I would be. Or try to be. Not afraid of what might happen.

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