He’ll never want for a thing.
I walk into the bakery and find Noah sitting at a table reading.
My little bookworm.
My smile stretches.
Then falls when I see Jamie talking with Aiden on the couch. His head lifts, and his eyes zero in on me. That’s right. Drink it in. He’ll be mine soon enough. I’ll take him far away from the suffering he must experience.
I walk up to Noah and ignore Jamie standing up to join us.
Noah’s head lifts from the book. “Oh. Um, hi.”
“Hello, beautiful.” Noah blinks. “What are you reading?”
“It’s about a female vampiress living in a house with ten male half humans who service her nightly and let her feed from them.” He smiles then goes back to his book. “Girl power for the win.”
“What’s going on?” Jamie steps up to us.
I ignore him. “I have to head back now. I wanted to say goodbye.” Noah lifts his angelic face to me.
Stunning.
“If you need anything, I’m only one phone call away.”
“You live two hours from here!”
I ignore Jamie. “Just one call.” I reach a finger to smooth along his cheek. Noah pulls away, looking back at his book. Smart. Be subtle. Don’t let Jamie know about us.
“It was nice to meet you, Dante.” His thick lashes flutter.
“Dan—”This rascal.“Devlin.”
“Isn’t that what I said?” He goes back to his book.
“Cheeky.”
“You can leave now.” Jamie steps closer to him.
Soon.
Soon, Noah will be mine.
My truck bumpsalong as I drive up the mountainous rocky roads to my cabin. I dread a little bit each time I go to Lia’s house. Not that I don’t want to see her, but I feel I owe her more than I can ever repay.
That woman is an angel and she saved my life.
Jamie was wrong. I don’t live two hours away. Up through the mountains, it’s only about a forty-minute drive. It’s hell in the winter, but then I usually stay up here alone until the weather clears. Plow trucks don’t make it up this way, so I’ll have to stock up on supplies soon before the bad weather really hits.
I’m so ready to go home.
Maybe I’ll call Noah when I get there.
No. Don’t smother him.
The roads are slick from the thunderstorm that rolled through last night, and up ahead I can see something in the road. It takes a minute to realize what I’m looking at. There’s a biker down up ahead. I pull over to the side of the road.
Fuck, there’s no service up here.
