Mist Guild Archives (The Melody Chronicles Book 1) by Leigh Ferguson

Author:Leigh Ferguson [Ferguson, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29: Running (or Not)

My mind spun from the earth-shifting kiss Sefa gave me.

I had been kissed before. How was it possible that it could be so different from what I knew?

He released one of my hands and stepped away, pulling me with him.

“Do you want to keep running?”

He started walking down the path, my hand still interlaced with his. I reached up with my free hand and touched my lips. They still tingled from that kiss.

Sefa stopped when I didn’t answer. “Well? Do you want to finish your run?”

I dropped my hand from my lips, and he smiled—the one that made my heart flutter.

He tugged my hand and pulled me flush against him. His hand cradled my jaw and he brought his lips to mine again. I reached up and looped my arm around his neck, holding him to me. In the middle of the path, I let a vampire kiss me silly.

He slid his hand along my waist to my lower back. I pushed up on my tiptoes to meet him, growing bolder. Sefa ran his hand up my spine and shivers racked my body.

Sefa kissed his way along my neck. “So, no running then?”

“No,” I answered, my voice breathless to my own ears.

He chuckled. “Come on. Let’s go back to the house, and I’ll make you breakfast.” He took my hand, and we began walking back.

Disappointment settled in my chest and I tried to push it away. What was I doing? There was no future with Sefa.

Right?

“What did you want to tell me last night?”

A sinking, gross feeling filled me at the thought of Joseph. I still had so many unresolved emotions with him. Not to mention reconciling the man I thought I knew with what I now knew about him.

“Eliza sent me a care package. And she put some of the letters that have come since I’ve been here so I can keep up with everything. Some of them include Joseph’s name—there are a few from a Mist Guild.”

Sefa’s head snapped to the side as he looked at me. “I need to see those.”

“That’s kind of what I thought. Is that the vampire hunter thing?”

He nodded. “Did you read them?”

“Yeah, but they didn’t make sense to me. That’s why I wanted to show them to you.”

Sefa dropped my hand as we approached the house and wrapped his hand around my waist. He tugged me closer to his side as he leaned his head toward my ear.

“Tiato is here. Don’t say anything. Stay close to me.”

My body immediately tensed, and Sefa rubbed his thumb back and forth over my back.

I could see the warlock as we reached the steps of the porch.

“Sefa! Just the man I was looking for.” Tiato stood with a wide grin. “Hello, Parker. Out for a run?”

“I don’t have the deed, Tiato.” Sefa moved me behind him as he crossed his arms over his chest.

“Why not? We deserve—”

“The bank has not been able to release it yet. Something about paperwork. You understand.”

Tiato narrowed his eyes briefly.

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