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
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
where I
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as he thought
hand and waiting
on the nightstand next to
set it on his chest
"Hello?"
It's E. I'm okay and
could hear muffled voices on the other end before Mom
Baby, is that
And I'm fine. Patrick made
must have put me on
I heard Kyle
got me away from
"E, what happened?"
choked up and couldn't talk. Patrick was watching me closely
certain she was safe first." He sounded apologetic, but also like he knew Kyle would understand, and I guessed if anyone would, it would be my I brother. Mating males were not exactly well known for rational thinking when their mates were
only about two hours out. I'll explain everything when we get there. In
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