Gloam: Gay Monster Romance (Monstrous Book 4) by Lily Mayne

Author:Lily Mayne [Mayne, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-02T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

It wasn’t long before I heard heavy footsteps echoing up the staircase outside the room. I would’ve recognised Gloam’s stride anywhere, but I didn’t move yet, just in case Mary was still with him.

He walked slowly, no doubt wondering where I was. I heard him pause outside the bedroom door. I couldn’t remember if I’d shut it behind me or not—god, I really was terrible at being a sneak. If I hadn’t, at least I’d inadvertently left him a clue to my whereabouts.

Holding my breath, I leaned forward and peered through the slats of the closet door. Gloam stepped inside and slowly closed the door behind him, leaning his war hammer against the wall. He stood still, as though waiting, or trying to sense if I was in here. His chain was still wound around his thick forearm, cumbersome as ever.

I couldn’t wait any longer, and I couldn’t hear any sounds at all coming from outside the bedroom. He was alone.

I scrambled up and out of the closet, launching myself at Gloam as he turned sharply toward me. He caught me in his arms, holding me close when I wrapped my legs around his waist and buried my face in the bend of his neck.

“Are you okay?” I whispered. “Did the—did that monster escape and hurt you?”

It was probably an irrational fear, but I could have sworn I heard the glass cracking on its cage.

Gloam tightened his arms around me, the chain digging into my skin through my jacket and the edge of his cage brushing my hair when he shook his head. He raised one hand to cup the back of my head when I finally lifted it to look up at him, wishing now more than ever that I could see his face.

“We’re so close, Gloam,” I whispered. “I’m going to find something in this stupid fucking house. I’m going to get that cage off you and then—and then we can…”

I wanted him to stay with me. I didn’t think I’d be able to stand being apart from him now, after everything we’d gone through together. It had been me and Gloam against the world for weeks. He was my partner in crime. He was my… my friend, but more than that. Not just a friend. What I felt for him far surpassed that.

Realising he couldn’t answer me, I reluctantly dropped to my feet and returned to the closet to grab my duffle. Gloam sat on the edge of the bed and reached for me, but before he could pull me into his lap I heard the crunch of tyres driving over gravel.

My heart jumped into my throat. Gloam stood up and walked to the window, so I followed him and clung to his thick arm.

“The military?” I whispered as we watched two dark green trucks pull into the circular drive and stop.

As Mary hurried out of the barn and toward them, a tall older man with a severe haircut, dressed in full military dress uniform, stepped out of the front car and brushed invisible lint off his lapels.

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