Kiss Hide Bite: A Vampire Romantic Thriller by Anna Rainn

Author:Anna Rainn [Rainn, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

The heat of the day had given way to a chilly night. I hadn’t realized how cold I had been until I was safely wrapped in Nick’s leather jacket and tucked behind him on his motorcycle as we chased the ambulance. The wind whipped all sound away, save for the ominous siren of the ambulance ahead. We rushed in pace with the wailing vehicle wordlessly. I wouldn’t have wanted to talk even if it was possible for Nick and me to hear each other over this night’s soundtrack of impending sorrow.

Owen hadn’t woken up. He didn’t even stir no matter how hard Nick shook him. The detective’s eyes hadn’t fluttered once as Nick ran to Owen’s car to radio in and call for medical assistance. It took them four minutes to arrive, followed by a fleet of police cars to close off yet another crime scene.

Nick and I spent all four minutes silent, with him crouched next to Owen, putting pressure on the horrible wound on his neck, and me shivering right next to them both. Metro general was within eyesight now with the ambulance taking a right turn and Nick steering his motorcycle the same way. I wrapped my arms around Nick’s body, looking for a degree of reassurance in the hardness of the muscle below his ripped clothes, looking for comfort I knew I would badly need once we got off this motorcycle and into the hospital.

But the time I had to soak up strength from Nick was too short. We were back on our feet again. Nick’s hand closed around mine and pulled me forward. It was as if I was floating through a thick cloud of night, through a nightmare. I wanted it to end. I wanted to wake up.

My shoes pounded the street’s dark concrete, then the hospital’s pale linoleum floors. Somewhere there, Nick’s hand left mine, and I stood, lost, looking around the too-bright surroundings. Why did hospital lights shine so brightly? Didn’t the dead deserve some rest? I took two steps to the right as a man and a woman in a lab coat passed me by, running.

A hand closed around my arm. A scream pierced my ear as I jumped back, my own scream.

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” I whispered to the nurse next to me, “I thought you were…,” I trailed off, unsure of what to say.

“It’s okay,” she smiled empathetically. “I’m nurse Gwen. Please come with me.” She signaled ahead to a corridor.

I walked behind her, trying to shrink into Nick’s jacket. Behind me, a door closed loudly.

“Stop right there!” Nick’s voice echoed.

The nurse turned. “Excuse me?”

“Where do you think you’re taking her?” His long legs closed the distance between us in wide steps.

“To the examination room. She is obviously in shock,” the nurse rationalized.

Nick put his arm on my back. “She is not going anywhere without me.”

“Are you family?” She asked.

I opened my mouth, searched for the words, and finally found four of them. “I want him to.”

When

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