Atonement by Tanith Frost

Author:Tanith Frost [Frost, Tanith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781775169109
Publisher: Sparrowcat Press
Published: 2017-11-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Daniel wakes me from a dream.

A fine one, in fact. One about him. I’m not usually lucky enough to have such good ones. It takes me a few seconds to orient myself in the office where I fell asleep, where the shadows have grown long and the light outside has almost faded. Daniel’s hand remains on my shoulder even after my eyes have opened.

He looks concerned.

I smile like nothing weird is happening, like I’ve snapped back to perfect awareness as a vampire should after sleep. It’s not easy to ignore the fragments of dreams that cling to me like filmy spiderwebs or the fact that my body has responded to my dream in ways that heighten my reaction to his hand on my body.

I can’t let him see.

“Everything okay?” I ask, beating him to the punch.

“So far. The others are up. We should get moving.”

He rises, and I relax. He didn’t see. He doesn’t know.

I turn my attention to the werewolf fire that’s flowing through the void, brighter and stronger than it should be. Treacherous fucker. I push it down, imagining it twisting in on itself, stopping the flow of power that those dreams rode in on.

I thought I’d be safe sleeping here. Though I stayed with Daniel through the hours he slept, I didn’t ask him to do the same for me. When he mentioned checking on the elderly after I woke him, I told him I’d be fine if he needed to stay with them.

And hoped I’d be awake before he came back—or at least be sleeping like the dead when he returned.

“Where are we heading?” I ask as I run my fingers through my hair, wincing at the blonde strands that pull loose on my fingers. Those fuckers take forever to grow back these days. Good thing I have all the time in the world.

I mean, if all goes well.

“I haven’t been able to reach Miranda,” he says. I know him well enough to tell he’s trying not to sound worried. “Cell service out here is shit, and the landline’s disconnected. So our plan remains the same. We wouldn’t have had time to walk to the safe house last night, but we can make it well before morning from here.”

“Assuming no one else wanders off,” I add, and he shoots me a dark glower that sends a delicious shiver up my spine.

I wonder whether it’s fucked up that I like it when he looks threatening, or that I miss our fight training almost as much as I miss tangling our bodies in more pleasurable ways. It doesn’t matter, I guess. No one cares how messed up I am in the head as long as I follow the rules and get the job done. At least, that seems to be Daniel’s theory, and it’s working out just fine for him.

The old ones are all present and ready to move, a fact I’m thankful for even if I don’t know who to thank anymore. They look well rested,

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