Darkness Shifting: Tides of Darkness Book One by Sarah Blair

Author:Sarah Blair [Blair, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rock Manor Studios, LLC
Published: 2016-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Mitch double parked around the block from the club and cut off the engine. Sidney didn’t move.

“I’m sorry I yelled earlier. I know what it must have been like to walk in on two guys taking another body. Especially after what happened the night Tom was killed,” he said. “Just because I don’t condone your actions doesn’t mean I don’t understand them.”

“Thanks.” Sidney appreciated the apology, but she was too nervous about seeing Dimitrius again to show it.

He reached over and took her hand, kissing the tips of her fingers. It was a small gesture, but it made her feel better.

“Go in, smooth things over, then meet me back at my place. You still have the extra key, right?”

She nodded, but stayed where she was.

“Talk to me, what’s bothering you about this?”

“I haven’t set foot inside a club in six years.”

The streetlight reflected off his lenses as he leveled his gaze on her. “You’re not that girl anymore.”

She stared at her lap. “Thanks to you.”

“What else?” He squeezed her hand like he might pull the words out of her.

“There’s something not right about Dimitrius. I feel like he can read my mind or something. He smells . . . weird.”

The streetlight reflected off Mitch’s lenses as he leveled his gaze on her. “He smells weird.”

“I don’t know, maybe the whole rich and powerful thing just reminds me too much of my grandfather.”

Mitch rested his head back against the seat.

“Dimitrius is nothing like Alexander Lake.” He circled his thumb around each of her knuckles. “I know that much, at least.”

Sidney scrunched her nose. “Speaking of my grandfather, he called me this morning.”

Mitch frowned. “Why?”

“He wanted to know why I was in the hospital.”

“How did he find out?”

“No idea.”

“What did you tell him?”

“Nothing. He only wants to use me to make himself look better.” Sidney nibbled her lower lip. “I mean, how would it seem if I had some disease he could cure and didn’t?”

“You didn’t say anything about being bitten?” Mitch squeezed her hand so hard it hurt.

“No! Like he’d believe me anyway? He spent a fortune on therapists to convince me my dreams weren’t real. We all know how that turned out.”

He massaged her knuckles with his thumb and stared out the window as a surge of traffic swooshed by.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.” He turned back to her and gave her a reassuring smile that didn’t quite shine in his eyes. “You should get going.”

She pouted.

“You’ll be fine.” He grabbed her and caught the pout of her lower lip between his own. They kissed long and slow and she forgot all about her grandfather, Dimitrius, everything. They kissed until her body ached and her face stung from the scrape of his five o’clock shadow.

“Call me when you’re done,” he said.

She ran her hand up his leg, but he caught it and shook his head.

“Quit stalling.”

She narrowed her eyes. “You kissed me first.”

“Go.”

She slid out of the car and checked up and down for traffic before she jogged across the middle of the road.

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