Chapter 161

Not wanting to see the disappointment in his beautiful blue eyes once again, I slowly lowered myself back down and repositioned myself next to him, unable to completely deny him or lose the

connection I so desperately craved and wouldn't allow myself to have.

He took a deep breath and kissed the top of my head as he played with the tips of my hair, inadvertently rubbing my mid-back in the process. It felt so good, so right. Combined with the steady

beating of his heart, I let it lull me into sleep.

Waking with a start, I stared around the room, quickly pulling my arms to me. My heart was racing and there were little beads of sweat covering my body. I gulped in air as anxiety enveloped me.

"Motel. No threat, no handcuffs," a deep voice rumbled from behind me, and I felt strong arms tighten around me.

In my heightened paranoia I didn't at first recognize them, but my body seemed to and began

relaxing before I realized what was happening.

"Patrick?" I whispered.

"I'm here, love. Try and get a little more sleep."

It wasn't long before we both realized that wasn't going to happen.

"Maybe we should just get on the road," I suggested.

"Yeah, let's go. No doubt your brother is freaking out by now."

"You didn't call him?"

when I shifted in the woods. Lost

get here exactly,

a smirky smile that made my body warm all over. "I didn't want to risk taking you back to that place. So I carried you back to the parking lot and broke into your car and hot-wired it. I just had to get you as far away from there as possible. The rational side of me knew I should talk to the police and tell

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He cringed as

and waiting for

on the nightstand next to

it on his chest and I quickly dialed Dad's

"Hello?"

I'm okay

other end before Mom grabbed

Baby, is

And I'm fine. Patrick

have put

you?" I

got me

"E, what happened?"

up and couldn't talk. Patrick was watching me closely and

He sounded apologetic, but also like he knew Kyle would understand, and I guessed if anyone would,

there. In the meantime, tighten up security around San Marco. The

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