Alpha's Captive 04 - Haven by V M Black

Author:V M Black [V M Black]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Want the sunglasses again?”

Harper made a small noise then opened her eyes. Levi noted that she didn’t come awake the way he did, instantly and completely, but moved through a moment of confusion, when her eyes were still sleep-fogged and her eyebrows drew together in a manner that was far too attractive for the state of his equilibrium.

She straightened in the seat, surreptitiously wiping at her cheek. Levi suppressed a grin despite himself. He’d been watching her drool slowly for the past two hours. Again.

“Where are we?” she asked, looking out the window.

“On a highway. Gas station ahead,” he said.

“That’s why your lights are on.” The last of the confusion cleared as she focused on the tall sign and bright lights of the filling station that they were rapidly approaching. “Yeah, I want the sunglasses.” She retrieved them from the dash where she’d left them and slid them over her eyes.

“I thought you might,” Levi said.

“You think it will do any good?” she asked.

“At this point? Not at all.”

“Aren’t you Mr. Optimism,” Harper said, raking her hair away from her face and settling them more securely on her nose.

“You asked,” he pointed out. He was glad that she’d decided not to resume their last conversation. It couldn’t go anywhere, after all. None of this could.

But his mind kept replaying her expression when he’d talked about a relationship that would last forever. He’d expected to see flat rejection. After all, it was crazy talk, in human terms. But instead there’d been shock and behind it a deep, aching pain.

A pain he could only add to, he told himself brutally. If not now, then at some point in the future. He was right to not try to kiss it away, to not make promises that he could never, ever keep, like he wanted so desperately to do.

“Mmm,” she said, leaning back against the headrest. “You said they go after families. Do you think they’ll do anything to mine? I couldn’t live with myself if something happened to any of them.”

“No,” Levi lied. It was a mounting concern of his own. The clan maintained an uneasy kind of truce with any number of other interests. If word had reached them of what he’d done, they would repudiate him after all the usual procedures and delays, which by convention should protect the members of the clan from any type of revenge. But of course, vampires were better at making rules for other people than following them.

“I’ll fill up,” he said, changing the topic. “You see if you can get a prepaid cell.”

“Sure thing,” Harper said, adjusting the shades.

Levi pulled into the gas station, put the parking brake on, and killed the engine. Harper waved the prepaid debit cards she’d snagged, and with another look at him above the edge of the sunglasses, she hopped out and went into the convenience store. Levi had chosen the gas station because of the building behind it—beyond the modern, shiny canopy, it looked like an old-fashioned, siding-clad

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