Chapter Fifteen
Ava
The sun wasjust coming up as I sat at my kitchen table and drank a cup of coffee. Macgrath was still asleep upstairs and we had a few hours before we had to be at Savannah’s. I’d called Savannah yesterday afternoon, hoping that Kerry would be with her. After I assured them both that I was fine after sleeping for a few hours, I told them we needed to meet and to plan the next step.
I was surprised how quickly and easily I’d fallen asleep last night. I thought that Macgrath’s presence would make it difficult, but it hadn’t. Of course I had been ridiculously pleased with myself. His hesitation to take of his pants, even when I zapped him with a spell to make them feel itchy and hot, was cute. It had taken all my willpower not to laugh. But I had finally slept.
The dreams of him never came. Instead, I slept deeply and peacefully.
But something had still changed between us.
After our argument yesterday, a new kind of tension now resided between us. I couldn’t name it. The same sizzling sexual awareness remained, but now there was something else, a deeper connection. A fragile bond forged by two people who had lost themselves.
When it came to Ewan Macgrath, I had no idea what I was doing half the time. That was why I avoided him all day. I didn’t know what to say to him.
I’d had lovers in the past, but they were few and far between. They also didn’t make me feel like this, desperate and out of control. They didn’t make me feel much at all, beyond relieving sexual frustration.
Macgrath elicited the full spectrum of my emotions. Anger, passion, sorrow, even frustration. In the last two days, I felt as though I’d gone from living my life in shades of grey to a kaleidoscope of color.
It was an overwhelming sensation and it sent me in a tailspin.
I felt Macgrath’s presence hit the room a few seconds before he spoke.
“Good morning.”
A shiver went down my spine. His voice was rough and deep, a low rumble that I felt in the pit of my stomach. Macgrath’s early morning voice was incredibly sexy and it made me wonder what those words would feel like if he spoke them against my throat as he slid inside me.
I shivered again and tried to hide my arousal behind my coffee mug though I knew it was pointless. Macgrath was a vampire. He would sense the rise in my heart rate and smell the changes in my body. When would I learn to maintain a spell to hide my reactions from him? Something about him made me lose my ability to think logically.
Still, he didn’t seem to notice. Grateful, I turned my eyes away and tried to rein in my wayward body. Damn hormones. They made everything more complicated, especially when dealing with a vampire.
I heard him pour a cup of coffee and steeled myself for his imminent proximity.
“Do you need more coffee?” he asked.
With my back to him, I closed my eyes and suppressed another shudder. That damned voice was going to be my undoing.
“No, thanks,” I murmured, lifting my cup to my lips. The liquid inside was lukewarm, but I drank it anyway.
Macgrath sat in the chair across from mine, his short hair was damp and his cheeks were rough with stubble. He looked dangerous and touchable. He also smelled delicious. I wanted to taste his skin to see if he tasted as yummy as he smelled.
I cleared my throat and set the coffee cup down before the tremor in my hands became noticeable. “I have to head to Savannah’s in a couple of hours. Kerry and I are going to discuss our next move.”
He leveled an intense stare at me. “I?”
I bit back a smirk. “We.”
Macgrath nodded and sipped his coffee. “Good. We need to find Rhiannon quickly before she tries to use the grimoire.”
I drained my cup and stood. “I’m going to take a shower and then we can go.”
He only nodded again and continued to drink.
I bit back a laugh as I left the kitchen. It seemed that not only was Ewan Macgrath’s voice very sexy first thing in the morning, but he was adorably grumpy as well.
Two hours later,we were once again seated around Savannah’s dining room table. Plates and bowls of food were spread across the table. Fruit, pastries, even a quiche.
Even under threat, Savannah wanted to do something nice for the people in her home. It was one of the things I loved about her.
