Not If You Were the Last Vampire on Earth by Cara Coe

Author:Cara Coe [Coe, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BKC Publishing
Published: 2016-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Her

I padded down the hallway in my socks. A single light cracked through an office door like a beacon in the dark space. It wasn’t the desk he showed me in the lab. It was deeper in, around the corner, a place I had yet to explore. I didn’t know what I was going to say to him. I only knew I needed him back. My bags were half-heartedly packed for Tucson, most of the effort fueled by the heat of the argument.

I couldn’t erase what I knew. What I learned before I properly labeled him a vamp. Somehow that label kept sliding off. Like it didn’t fit. I didn’t even know what vamp meant to me anymore. In one impassioned speech, in the space of minutes, he struck shame into my heart and forced me to see the world through a vamp’s eyes. I had hurt him and I wanted to take it back. My heart ached for our conversations, and his eyes, and his infectious laugh. The rest of the world would have frowned upon these feelings I had but the rest of the world wasn’t here.

I pushed lightly on the door. It squeaked on its hinges. Alex turned from the desk he was sitting at and locked eyes with me. We remained frozen that way. Me in the door frame, him in the swivel desk chair. My words had been harsh. I needed to start this.

I shifted on my feet nervously. My lips curled in a timid smile and dropped. I cleared my throat. “Alex...” I took a deep breath to steady my nerves. He was just sitting there. Looking at me. I hadn’t come prepared with any words to undo some of the damage I did upstairs. The machines whirred on, oblivious to my plight. “Alex, I-”

I was cut off. In a swift moment, Alex pushed himself out of the chair and met me at the doorway. His lips pressing to mine swallowed my voice. His hands rose up to cup my cheeks, soft and desperate at the same time.

My own hands were just as desperate. I clutched the sides of his shirt. My mouth moved with his. His kiss was passionate and needful, opening my mouth and craving more. The taste of him set my heart on fire. It pounded with a wonderfully painful beat.

He pulled away to look at me. His hand massaged the back of my neck and his eyes bore into mine. “I’m sorry, you were about to say something before I interrupted you.”

“Alex, I love you.”

He stilled and pulled away like I’d taken a five iron to his stomach. His hand rubbed his chest absently as he looked at me with bewilderment.

I looked down at the floor between us. It hadn’t been what I came here to say. I had come to apologize. To make amends. To set things back to the way they were before. But when he kissed me, he awakened the truth that had been dwelling inside me and when that kind of truth rises to the surface it’s impossible to contain it.

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