Ravaged by Victoria Flynn

Author:Victoria Flynn [Flynn, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Jessica

Several days later, Hale’s phone rang loudly, breaking the peaceful silence and jarring me awake. He grumbled next to me, not yet roused. The second round of ringing was even more shrill than the first.

I flopped my hand over, nudging Hale’s chest so he could answer it. He only grunted.

“Hale, your phone,” I mumbled sleepily, trying to shift into a new comfortable position.

The mattress dipped as he moved to sit up on the edge of the bed. I pulled the pillow over my head so his conversation wouldn’t further disturb my sleep. The bedroom was still dark, not yet illuminated by the morning sun. I was snoozing again before I ever heard him say hello.

It must’ve been something about the tone of his voice that woke me or maybe it was another shift on the bed as he got up that made me sit up and take notice of what was going on.

“What do you mean it’s trashed?” Hale yelled into the phone. “Was there anything taken? Fuck, Charlie! Of course not, I’m sorry. None of this is your fault. I’ll be right there. Okay, thank you. Bye.”

He tossed the phone onto the bed. “Fuck!”

Hale ran his hand through his hair while he hooked the other on his waist.

“What is it? What happened?” I asked, rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

He jerked his attention to me, eyes blazing. His features were sharper, more angular. Hale’s tight control was slipping. Whatever he’d been told on the phone was bad. Nothing else would make him lose his mind like that, other than hunger, which hadn’t been an issue since that first night we’d been together.

“Did I wake you?” he said, his tone softening as he got the words out.

“Not really,” I lied. “Was that Charlie on the phone?”

He nodded. “Someone trashed Tonic. There’s too much of a mess to tell if they took anything valuable. I’ve got to go down and be there when the police arrive.”

Someone had come in and trashed the bar? Judging from Hale’s response, it wasn’t something that happened regularly. It didn’t sound like anyone had been hurt, so it was the small mercies that I was grateful for.

Hale crossed to the bed and sat down next to me. Leaning in, he pressed a tender kiss to my temple. His spicy scent fanned over my face, making me lean into him as I tried to soak up as much of it as I could manage.

“Go ahead, and go back to sleep. I’ll be back before you wake up,” he whispered into my hair.

Hale pulled the covers up to my shoulder, pressing his lips against the bare skin there, and paused a little longer than normal. Was his hunger coming back? There was still so much about his life and what he was that I knew nothing about. His demon side was something I’d only witnessed the one time and still had trouble believing.

“You okay? Do you need to feed again?” I asked, seeing the fire fade from his stare.

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