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He slowly withdrew and rolled to the side, sliding his leg between mine.
“I’ll make it up to you,” he whispered.
* * *
My breath foggedin front of me as we approached the wall. Another dozen people were waiting, but no faces I recognized from the day before. Except for Matt. He broke away from the people he was talking to and approached us. His gaze flicked to the guns we carried.
“Are you sure you want to go back out again so soon?” he asked.
“How else do you plan on stocking up that storage shed?”
Matt looked like he was going to say something more, but the arrival of the fey distracted him. They jumped over the wall like the day before, but this time, there was a girl with Ryan. She hurried toward Matt as soon as the fey put her down.
“Just the person I was hoping to speak with,” she said with a smile. “I have some new ideas I’d like to run by you.” She looked at the fey who’d followed her. “Thanks for the ride, Tor. I should be fine on my own today.”
Without her use of his name, I wouldn’t have recognized the fey who had helped us the prior day, and I felt a little bad for it. Bad enough that I studied his features and did my best to commit them to memory. His bright yellow-green eyes with the vertical pupil, his strong nose with a slight bump in it that hinted at a past break, and his prominent cheekbones and brow. When I looked past the unusual shape of his ears and odd eyes, he was actually handsome.
“Hey, Tor,” Adam said, sticking out his hand. “I’m glad to see a familiar face.”
I couldn’t help but notice the girl’s shock as she glanced between Adam and Tor, who was accepting Adam’s gesture of welcome. Considering how unwelcoming this place was, I wondered if common courtesy was so unusual.
“I’m June,” I said to her. “That’s Adam.”
“New faces. You must be the couple they found out at the farm. Welcome.”
Her welcome was the first we’d received outside of Matt’s.
“Thank you,” I said.
“We better go,” Adam said, calling my attention to the mass exodus.
“It was nice meeting you,” I said to the woman before jogging with Adam to catch up.
As we waited to get into the truck, Adam spoke softly to Tor.
“Think we can have the same group as yesterday?” he asked.
Tor’s gaze shifted briefly to me before he nodded.
“Good. Thanks to your help, June and I had a good night.”
I flushed and pretended not to hear as I climbed into the back of the truck.
The ride took a little longer than the previous day, and the people in the back with us started to get restless.
“Ryan didn’t say this was going to be a long run,” someone grumbled.
“He stopped telling us,” someone else said.
“If it’s bad, I’m not leaving the truck.”
I leaned my head against Adam’s shoulder to distract him from answering. It worked. He turned to kiss my forehead, and I played with the hair at the back of his neck.
When the truck finally stopped and we could get out, a few of the humans stayed behind.
“What’s their deal?” Adam asked Tor as we walked away. The subdivision didn’t look any different from the one we’d raided the day before.
“They like staying closer to Tenacity. It feels safer to them.”
