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His mouth sealed over the spot onwithto encase hi when he only teased ed ainst my throat

I didn't kno he knew I'd closed the the other way-but I opened them as asked Between the red whips of my hair, I saw vast cornfields spread out beneath us, darker and less distinct fro in the breeze They wereviewed fro husks and cracked stalks, olden ocean Seeing those gently swaying fields filled me with a form of peace I hadn't felt in a while My roots cales, and up here, there were no ghosts chasing us, literally or htet the world containedto hurt other people It had beauty, too, if you knehere to look-and remembered to open your eyes Bones'snant I could feel his hunger in ainstto scorchthat he knew, somehoould heal a piece of me I hadn't knoas broken

There ords for what he e ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn't find enough of thehe could still read my mind so he'd know even a portion of what I couldn't put into sentences His lips ainst my throat in what felt like a smile

"I love you, Kitten," he whispered

I was about to reply in kind, but only a gasp ca deeply at the sa htened,me as he pulled out very, very slowly-and then thrust forward hard enough to wring a shout from me

Vampire body heat didn't rise, and the cold air around us probably meant I'd clock in under roorearly sloithdrawal built that sensation of heat, and when it was followed by a swift, deep thrust, I felt like my skin would start to spark The puddle of ether, but that hter, and I did The extra swell of pleasure cresting over my e it, squeezing him with every ly unhurried inch

"Don't Stop," he growled

I tried to keepabove, but thefrohtest movement of his body as well as those fierce, rapturous thrusts, until my entire body shuddered from the intensity His ar h to bruise, but I wanted his into h hter in my loins I didn't want hi into hs and innercos with h that, I knew exactly when to rip his hips to hold hi ecstasy when he lost control and took e with him

For severalto hi every last tre ripples from mine Finally, my lids fluttered open At soer over the golden, swaying cornfields, but a patchwork of roads, thankfully too high for the streetlights to present any collision issue-or e illu up to runh the hter was breathy froht be, but you are one hell of a pilot"

His chuckle ry blare from a horn drifted up to us, a re to intrude, but I closed ainst hier

Chapter Thirty

On October 26, not four hours after Bones and I put the finishing touches on the new limestone/quartz/moissanite trap,suds froet icier every day No electricity meant no hot water If the carbon enerator in the house just to be able to take a hot shower again

I continued rinsingto read the text because it was about the ti ent, she wouldn't text To conserve the battery in my phone, we didn't chat verbally, and to be honest, it was easier to text back "no news" than admit out loud that we still hadn't found the last woman All of us watched the days count down on the calendar with increasing dread

Kra around as e that he was probably splitting his ti and escalating his torh to make me feel like I had a permanent case of nausea Unless we found her, that woman had just over a hundred hours to live

It was just ht now Ian, Tyler, and myhis own version of food, and my mother kept watch over Tyler just in case Kramer happened to stumble upon them Hopefully soon, my mother would follow Ian's lead and vary her diet I half wondered if that hy he insisted on going out so frequently and taking theh maybe it was just a case of boredoot out of the shower and dried off with a few brisk, efficient swipes, I grabbed ht was that it was gibberish Letters, syether without spaces, soled around in her purse or pants pocket and my number was redialed by mistake; I'd butt-dialed people by accident before But this wasn't co from Denise's cell It was froe