“No.  Don’t you dare.  I want you to look at my face.”  He growled.

Surprised and distracted by his tone, I did exactly that.  The moment I looked, his hands left my arms and settled firmly on my hips, dragging me against him so I could feel every hard muscle of him from his chest down to his thighs.  The length of his erection pressed against my belly and sent shivers through my every limb.

“You want this as much as I do.  It scares the shit out of you, and I get that.  But I’m afraid too, Sarah.  The two of us have been thrown together in this vampire thing without asking for it.  If I fall for you, I’m giving them what they want.”

“It doesn’t matter what they want.”  I breathed.
Copyright © 2011 by Stephanie J. Wright

The fear of falling didn’t go away when Dad brought Messenger home.  I loved her dearly.  But her energy was twice as frightening to me as Lenny’s.  She was ten years younger than he was and black as coal all over.  She had an amazing mane that draped down to her shoulders and gleamed like the night sky.  As stunningly beautiful as she was, I still couldn’t gather the courage I needed to climb up onto her back.

To know that Jackson had made that leap before me made me feel sad instead of angry.  Nelly let me think it over instead of calling me on it.  It was one of the many things I appreciated about her.  But before I left the room, she did say something that caught me by surprise.

“That boy is the real deal, Sarah.”

“What do you mean?”

She had that look on her face that she sometimes got when she was absolutely positive about her opinion.  From experience, I knew to take it seriously.  She’d had a bad feeling about Trevor Kincaid when she first met him.  And that time, her instincts had been right on the nose.

Her eyes were twinkling, “He has a place here.  He was meant to come here.  You’ll see what I mean before long.”

Copyright © 2011 by Stephanie J. Wright

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