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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