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When those words—that promise—it possibly, maybe could mean something… And if it did, perhaps I’d claim one small win after all.
I drew her close enough that I could feel the heat of her tears trickling onto my neck.
“Bite. Me.”
She was still breathing heavily, terror in each of those sounds. It was hers, and then, like a blinding flash of light, it was mine, as her teeth sank into my flesh.
I sagged, wrapping my arms around her and holding her close.
“I’ll always keep you safe.”
This was it, I realised.
The beginning of the end.
ROOK
Something was wrong. I could feel it.
Or I was hyper attuned to the strange silence from Ebony after how bright he’d been earlier.
And that was when I saw her through my balcony window.
A slight figure in an oversized sweatshirt stepping down the driveway and into the darkness. The high of the night crashed into a stone wall as I realised what I was looking at.
My mate, walking away.
A limo waited on the street beyond. A pack here to take her back.
I was backing up, then sprinting down the stairs in seconds.
She hadn’t texted, but I couldn’t leave her to do this alone.
I caught up to her as she neared the gates, already in earshot of the low hum of the limo’s engine. She spun as she heard my footsteps and her lips parted in surprise.
Her heat.
I caught it around the edges of her scent, present, though faint as if shoved off by drugs.
Fuck.
She drank me in, head cocked, a distant expression on her face. Then she reached up, tracing the lines of her name across the goosebumps of my chest.
It was hard not to glance at the limo. Hard not to let my aura slip out. “Are they…?” I cleared my throat. “Are they in there?”
“Yes.”
I didn’t realise I’d taken a step forward until I felt her hand on my arm. “Please don’t,” she whispered.
I paused, looking back at her with a pained expression. There was a long silence between us as I warred with every instinct in my body.
Didn’t she know I would die for her, if it meant freeing her of this?
But it wasn’t that simple.
It never had been.
I stepped back, jaw clenched, turning to her.
