My eyes pop open when I realize where I am. “Good morning,” Keller says in my ear. I scoot back on the bed so that I can meet his gaze. “Good morning. I didn’t mean to fall asleep in here.” He smoothes my mussed hair. “Are you sorry you did?” It hits me how peacefully I slept while lying next to ...
She rubbed her arms against the goosebumps peppering her exposed skin. She froze when Reed wrapped his arm around her shoulder, but a memory, so bright and clear it could have been playing on a screen in front of her, helped her relax and lean against him. He’d held her like this the day of Troy’...
“That looks peaceful. Chilly, but peaceful.” “Yeah.” Janie didn’t quite meet her eyes. Elly tried to calm the nerves roiling inside her. This sensation of being nervous around Janie made her feel like she’d taken a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in an alternate universe. But she did her best n...
To the outside world, he would appear to be nothing but a vampire, but he stubbornly held on to the scrap of humanity he still possessed. Though it was never harder than at moments like this, when the animal inside him roared with need and threatened to wipe out the man he’d been once and for all...