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An arousal. Torr didn’t feel anything yet. But that wasn’t uncommon. The two eldest, Kenton and Lawrence, typically sensed such things first.
So much for their truce. It had been a very temporary one indeed.
“What is it?” Charlotte asked.
“Excuse me,” he said to Kenton. Then, coming around the bar, he took Charlotte by the hand and led her to the private vault area.
“I have some bad news,” he started, grabbing both of her hands.
“Torr, you’re scaring me.”
“We’ll have to go.”
Her eyes widened.
“We?”
“You, me. Laria.”
“A Cheld?”
He nodded. “I don’t know where, not yet, but after what happened last time, we won’t want to rush into this.”
The last time a Cheld had stirred, he and Laria had sought him out. They’d thought to cloak him, but it had turned out to be a member of the Sect attempting to lure them in and entrap them. To his knowledge, a Cheld had never done that before. Deliberately uncloaked him or herself to lure them out.
But now that it had been done once, Torr couldn’t discount it happening again. Especially given the errant Cheld they’d sensed in Stone Haven a few weeks ago.
“So why is this bad news, exactly?”
“We’ll need to leave, and I don’t know how long we’ll be gone—”
“But that was always the expectation,” she said. “It’s fine. So long as we’re together.”
His heart skipped a beat.
This woman . . .
“You did promise to show me the world. And weren’t we heading to Lindisfarne anyway?”
“Yes,” he admitted. “But not soon. As for seeing the world? Anywhere you want to go. Once we follow this lead and find the new Cheld—”
She kissed him, and Torr—relieved that she wasn’t upset about leaving, emotional from the toast—grasped onto her for dear life.
“Get a room!” someone called from the bar.
“Good idea,” he said. “The moment Kenton can determine the location, we’ll need to be on the first flight out.”
“And I still have to tell my mom and stepdad.”
“Have you decided how much to tell them?”
She’d asked him what to say, but Torr had insisted it was up to her, though the less people who knew, the better.
“Not yet, but I guess I’ll have to figure it out soon.”
“Indeed,” he said, watching Drake out of the corner of his eye. So he didn’t know where the Cheld was yet either.
“But in the meantime—”
“In the meantime,” he said with a wink, “about that room.”
The others laughed as Charlotte fairly pulled him out of the bar. While she didn’t care for the noises that came with her super senses, mostly because she had not yet learned to block them out, heightened senses during sex was one thing Charlotte was quite fond of since she’d turned.
His only regret?
Not turning her sooner. She’d saved him, and in return, he would spend the rest of his days thanking her.
In the way he knew to do it best.
