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Not wanting to see the disappointment in his beautiful blue eyes once again, I slowly lowered myself back down and repositioned myself next to him, unable to completely deny him or lose the
connection I so desperately craved and wouldn’t allow myself to have.
He took a deep breath and kissed the top of my head as he played with the tips of my hair, inadvertently rubbing my mid–back in the process. It felt so good, so right. Combined with the steady
beating of his heart, I let it lull me into sleep.
Waking with a start, I stared around the room, quickly pulling my arms to me. My heart was racing and there were little beads of sweat covering my body. I gulped in air as anxiety enveloped me.
“Motel. No threat, no handcuffs,” a deep voice rumbled from behind me, and I felt strong arms tighten around me.
In my heightened paranoia I didn’t at first recognize them, but my body seemed to and began
relaxing before I realized what was happening.
“Patrick?” I whispered.
“I’m here, love. Try and get a little more sleep.”
It wasn’t long before we both realized that wasn’t going to happen.
“Maybe we should just get on the road,” I suggested.
“Yeah, let’s go. No doubt your brother is freaking out by now.”
“You didn’t call him?”
“Lost my cell phone when I shifted in the woods. Lost your keys, too. Sorry.”
“How did we get here exactly, then?”
He gave me a smirky smile that made my body warm all over. “I didn’t want to risk taking you back to that place. So I carried you back to the parking lot and broke into your car and hot–wired it. I just had to get you as far away from there as possible. The rational side of me knew I should talk to the police and tell them you were okay, but my wolf and I were not thinking rationally.”
“So my family doesn’t know where I am or that I’m safe?”
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“No.” He cringed as he thought it through.
“Phone,” I said, holding out my hand and waiting for him to pass me the hotel phone on the nightstand next to him.
He set it on his chest and I quickly dialed Dad’s number.
“Hello?”
“Dad? It’s E. I’m okay and we’re coming home.”
I could hear muffled voices on the other end before Mom grabbed the phone away.
“Elise? Baby, is that really you?”
“I’m here, Mom. And I’m fine. Patrick made sure of it.”
At some point they must have put me on speaker phone.
“Patrick’s with you?” I heard Kyle ask.
“Yeah, he got me away from there.”
“E, what happened?”
I choked up and couldn’t talk. Patrick was watching me closely and slowly took the phone from my shaking hand.
“Kyle? It’s Patrick. Sorry I didn’t phone sooner. I had to get her away from there and make certain she was safe first.” He sounded apologetic, but also like he knew Kyle would understand, and I guessed if anyone would, it would be my brother. Mating males were not exactly well known for rational thinking when their mates were in trouble.
“We’re only about two hours out. I’ll explain everything when we get there. In the meantime, tighten up security around San Marco. The Bulgarians were behind this.”
I could hear my brother drop an F–bomb through the phone. It was so out of character for him that it made me giggle nervously.
Patrick quirked one eyebrow at me and I snorted, trying to hold back a full laugh, and smacked him lightly. My playful gesture took some of his worry away as he said goodbye and hung up with my
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“Come on, let’s hit the road. I think Kyle may have a firing squad waiting for me. I should have called him the second you were safe. I just wasn’t thinking about him, only you.” He smiled apologetically and brushed a stray piece of hair behind my ear.
“Can I take a quick shower first?”
His face flushed and his cheeks started spotting red as he looked between me and the bathroom door before nodding. I didn’t need to hear his thoughts to understand what he was thinking. I shook my head, laughed, and headed for the bathroom. It felt good, yet wrong, to laugh at a time like that
I turned on the hot water and watched as the room began to steam. I stripped and stepped into the shower. As the water cleansed me, the emotions of the day overwhelmed me and I sunk to the floor crying. It was a cleansing cry, and as I pulled myself back together, I felt better and stronger because of it and knew I was going to be okay.
Toweling off, I realized I only had my dirty clothes. Wrapped in the towel, I opened the door and stuck my head out. Patrick wasn’t there, but a clean set of clothes laid on the bed, waiting for me. I wondered briefly as I began to dress how I had gotten so lucky in the mate department.
Halfway through pulling my shirt on, I froze. My mate. Patrick O’Connell was my mate. It was the first time I had really allowed that thought to sink in. He cared about me. He wanted to protect me. In my time of need, I had let him. I had not considered for one second anything else. When I wasn’t stubbornly fighting our destiny, it was so easy to just be with him.
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