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Including the sexy sheriff with the irresistible mouth and warm brown eyes.
“You ready, Red?” he asked as he reached to grab her duffel bag.
She pulled it out of his reach and glared at him. If he kept calling her that, it would be so much easier to keep her distance from the man.
And his kisses.
Why. Justwhydid he have to be such a good kisser?
More to the point, why in the hellhadhe kissed her?
Valentine hadn’t let herself think about it too much because every thought that popped into her mind when she wondered was insane.He wants mekind of insane.We are a compatiblekind of madness.
It was much better to focus on the terrible nickname he had decided to give her. “I told you not to call me that,” she said. “It’s not evenoriginal. I have auburn hair. It’s close to red. I get it. You’re not colorblind like a puppy.”
Nero chuckled, and as always, the sound of his laugh made her belly do a little flip-flop. Man. She loved that sound. It was warm and rich and collided with her hopes of a fun-loving boyfriend.
But that wouldn’t happen.
She was not going to date Nero.
Not only was he a wolf, but one day, he would find his mate and go off into the forest to howl at the moon with a perfect little wolf lady.
“If not Red, then what should I call you?”
“Umm, how about myname? It’s Valentine, in case you had forgotten.”
“Hard to forget a redhead named Valentine,” he drawled as he swung her bag over his shoulder. He evenwinkedat her.
“Huh?”
“You know. Valentine. Red hearts.”
“And a baby in a diaper flying around,” she snapped. Was the irony lost on her that she was obsessed with love and her name was Valentine? No. It wasn’t.
“It was my grandmother’s name,” she explained. “So my mother named me after her.”
“It’s beautiful.”
“Can we get going?” she asked, trying … and failing … to ignore the compliment.
He nodded. “We just need to make a stop before.”
She pursed her lips at him. “I thought we were supposed to leave at the crack of dawn.” She pointed to the rising sun. “It’s dawn. We’re burning daylight. We should be driving to our first destination.”
“And we will. But first, we need to make a plan. Strategize. Make a list of all the places we need to check. And,” he added as he made his way back to his truck. “I am starving. I really need to eat.”
“Couldn’t you do that before like a normal human?”
“Nah,” he replied, swinging her duffel bag into the back of the truck. “Besides, I figured you would be too anxious to eat, and I can’t have a hungry vamp sitting beside me on a cross-country drive.”
“Half-Blood,” she said.
He smiled at her. “Still. I am a bit scared of your hunger.” He winked again to show he was just joking, but she didn’t find it funny.
Not if he was going to keep winking at her.
“A good road trip always starts with a plate of pancakes.” He opened the passenger door for her and waited for her to hop in. “Or waffles,” he added with another wink that burned up her cheeks faster than the sun ever could
