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“Sosweethow protective you are,” he sneers. “Nothing is going to protect him fromus.”
“No,” I breathe, clutching at mychest.
But Manny has already turned and walked away, taking a path that leads away from the wooded area. I turn to the forest, hoping to catch sight of Carver, but I no longer feel his presence. He’s…gone?
“Lainey!” the campers shout in a chorus behind me. “Comeon!”
With one last desperate glance toward the woods, I tell myself I won’t let anything happen to Carver. Tonight, I’ll go back to him. He needs to bewarned.
Who knew I would be toolate.
Chapter Seven
Carver
Istompthrough the forest with even less grace than usual, sending small animals scurrying in every direction. There’s an awful pinch in my side that I haven’t inspected yet, but I can only think of finding my Lainey. Holding her. She’s not supposed to return to me until Saturday night, but waiting isn’t an option. I need her so badly, my head is turning inside out. Every second pushes me closer to insanity. Last time I saw her, she was standing in that tempting red bikini, her beautiful face in distress, and I only want to cure her ofit.
A twig snaps to my left and I hear a sob. It’s a familiar one, too. I remember it from last night when Lainey was in pain after falling and hitting her head. It occurs to me in a sickening flash that the men who attacked me tonight could have also tried to harm Lainey—and the possibility has me battering a tree with my fist, its roots ripping out the ground at myfeet.
“Lainey!”
“Carver?”
My heart hammers back to life in my chest as she comes stumbling through the trees, her arms wrapped around herself to stave off the cold. Without waiting, I scoop her up into my arms and begin rubbing warmth back into her limbs. “Princess, you should not be out here on such a cold night.” I search her for injuries—didn’t I hear her sob before? “Are you safe? Did they come after you? I should not have sparedthem—”
“I’m okay.” She clasps my face between her hands and I notice the tears in her eyes for the first time. “I was worried aboutyou. I left as soon as the girls were asleep to warn you they were coming, b-but they’d already left. Oh God, I’ve been so scared something happened toyou.”
“You are crying forme?”
My question seems to make everything worse. “OfcourseI am.” She wiggles until I set her down. “What happened? Did they—” Her breath leaves her in a rush as she prods my side. “You’re hurt. Oh God, you’rebleeding.”
“I feel no pain,” I say honestly. How can I feel anything but pleasure when this girl cries for me? “They brought only five men. It wasn’t much of a challenge forme.”
Her laughter is watery. “This is all your fault, you know. You just had to abduct me in front of everyone. Couldn’t you have waited until nighttime, at least?” She peels up my shirt, wincing at my injury. “No one would have known and you wouldn’t be bleeding rightnow.”
“I apologize, princess.” I brush hair away from her tear-stained face. “It was my firstkidnapping.”
She peers up at me through her eyelashes. “If they took the time to know you, they wouldn’t think you’re a-a—”
“A monster?” I tilt her chin up. “I only care what you think ofme.”
“I think you’re beautiful.” I’m still reeling when she says, “I want to know how you got your scars. Will you tellme?”
A sound leaves my throat, images of glinting silver assaulting me. “It’s not a pretty story. It doesn’t belong in your beautifulhead.”
“My story isn’t that pretty, either. I can take it.” She takes me by the hand and I let her lead me away. “But first I’m going to bandage youup.”
I don’t know where Lainey is taking me, and I don’t care. I’ll follow her to the ends of the earth, so I’m content to watch her cute backside swish back and forth in the moonlight and marvel over the fact that she’s mine. The solitude I’ve known for so long in the woods has come to an end as of tonight, but that’s a problem I will solve tomorrow. I’ll do whatever I have to do to keep Lainey, though. That is a fact set instone.
After about ten minutes of walking around the camp perimeter, we reach a small cabin, with a sign on the door that reads INFIRMARY. Lainey pulls a key ring out of her pocket, unlocks the door and goes inside, turning on a dim lamp that fills the room with a glow. I duck through the tiny doorframe behind her, taking in the room full of beds, the shelves full of medicine and supplies. Without sitting on one of the beds, I know they will not hold my weight easily, so I pull my shirt off and lean back against the counter. Lainey has been collecting antiseptic and bandages from the shelf, but when she turns and sees me naked from the waist up, she gasps andfreezes.
“I’ve never seen you in the light before.” She rolls her lips together. “You have so muchhair.”
“There’s a lot of me tocover.”
Her laughter is halting. “You don’t say.” When she comes closer, I see that her nipples are in tight peaks, causing my cock to lengthen, preparing to fuck my mate. “Oh, wow. Okay,” she says, watching the front of my pants tent. “I guess your injury isn’t thatbad?”
“I could hack off a limb and still get hard for you while I’m bleedingout.”
