Rose by Ripley Proserpina

Author:Ripley Proserpina [Proserpina, Ripley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-21T05:00:00+00:00

Rose couldn’t believe he was really here.

Just like she’d expected, Briar took one look at her and directed her to the bathroom.

But she hadn’t wanted to go.

She wanted to stay next to Seti, where the warmth of his body and the warmth he conjured inside her made her feel at ease.

Safe.

“Rose, please,” Briar guilted. “You’ll get sick.”

What if she left, changed, and when she got back the cold seeped into her because Seti was gone? It mattered, for some reason, that he’d come back. It meant something.

“I’m not leaving,” Seti whispered like he read her mind, and maybe he had. Vampires. Crawlers. Warmth.

Magic.

She was finding answers, making sense of things. All it had taken was nearly losing her life twice in the last week.

With Seti’s promise, she hurried upstairs, changed into the sweatpants and sweatshirt Briar got her, and ran back down.

Her hair was still wet and her fingernails muddy, but she was dry. She’d do for now.

The people in the living room—Valen, Sylvain, Marcus, Hudson, Briar, and Seti—were exactly where she left them. But tense.

“Where’s Lindy?” she asked, suddenly feeling nervous.

“Friend’s house working on a project,” Briar said and patted the cushion next to her. “Sit down.”

Seti was standing next to the window and she went to him instead. He watched her as she approached him, dark blue eyes lightening the closer she got. Straightening, he let his arms fall to his sides. “You okay?’

She nodded. “Yes.”

“We filled Seti in on what we know,” Briar said. “But we have questions.”

“You have questions?” Rose darted a look between her and Seti. “I have questions.”

“Go on,” Seti said quietly. He faced her. At some point, he’d taken off his coat-vest, but he was still wet. His t-shirt clung to his skin and water dripped from his hair down the side of his face.

“You need a towel,” she said.

“I don’t get sick,” he replied.

“Neither do I.” They stared at each other for a long, loaded moment until Briar interrupted.

“You were kidnapped by a vampire,” she said. “Where?”

There it is. There was the answer again. Vampire.

Seti shifted his gaze to Briar and then back to Rose. “Are you okay?” he asked.

“Yes,” she answered. She’d healed. But he must have caught a tone of falsehood in her voice, because she’d never seen someone’s face darken as quickly as Seti’s did.

“He took you, and you’re not telling me everything.” His form blurred as he paced. He went to the front door, stopped, and came back to her. Then did it again. On the fourth circuit, he stopped. “Start at the beginning.”

“I went to the coffee shop today,” she said, watching him carefully. She didn’t want to upset him, which wasn’t like her. Earlier, she’d antagonized Sylvain. With Seti, she was more sensitive, and she didn’t know why. “I was recognized, so I left.”

“Recognized?” Valen asked.

“By a woman. And then by the other people in the cafe. I was uncomfortable, so I left. At the bus stop, a man”—not a man—“approached me.”

“What did he do?” Seti asked.

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