Hunger by Jacquelyn Frank

Author:Jacquelyn Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

They switched from one truck to another, Halo impressing her with his ability to start whatever car he wanted to with only his strength and a screwdriver to assist him. She felt bad for whoever’s truck it was, but she knew the person would understand if they had known the desperation of their situation.

They got back on the highway and Felice struggled to stay conscious. She felt as though she had done nothing but sleep since this whole thing had begun—whether voluntarily or not. But she had never known the type of exhaustion that threaded through her at that moment. Her limbs were heavy and uncoordinated; her whole body felt like dead weight. Pain radiated from her shoulder like a burning fire in her skin. She had amazed herself by being able to so much as walk after Halo had gotten through feeding from her.

And what a feeding it had been! She had never felt anything so electric, so stimulating in her life. He had been underselling the experience to her when he’d so simply tossed out the term “sexual high.” It had been damn near orgasmic. If they had been in another situation, if she had been free to lose herself in the feelings, she knew she could have reached orgasm just from the feeding alone.

She felt cheated of that. Cheated of all the luxurious sensation she should have been able to indulge in. She knew this might be the one and only time he fed from her, that he might decide to wipe her memory the moment they were somewhere safe. She knew her time with him was growing short. He would be back with his frivolous women and she would be forgotten. She took small consolation in the fact that she wasn’t likely to remember their encounter anyway.

“When we get to this safe place,” she said drowsily, “don’t wipe my memory before I have a chance to say goodbye.”

“I wouldn’t do that,” he said, a stormy frown darkening his features. “And anyway, you’ve been shot. We’ll have to wait until you’re healed to erase your memories because there’s no way even the strongest of us could implant a plausible reason for you to be shot and unable to remember it. And by then…the longer you know about us, the harder it is to erase. We’ll have to wipe out months of your life by the time you heal. Only someone as powerful as the queen could possibly pull that off.”

“Months? I could…you’d let me remember all of this for months?”

She was suddenly overjoyed, the idea giving her a new vigor.

“Good,” she whispered. “Good.”

“We shouldn’t erase your thoughts anyway. Not so long as there is an unknown threat out there for you. It wouldn’t be right. It wouldn’t be fair to you to leave you that vulnerable. Although…I would watch over you,” he said softly. “I will watch over you.”

Again pleasure swirled through her, competing mightily with the pain of her shoulder. He wasn’t going to just dump her off and forget all about her.

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