Something Witchy (Mystics & Mayhem) by AJ Myers

Author:AJ Myers [Myers, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Parasite Publications
Published: 2012-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Vampire Mind Meld

I opened my eyes slowly. I wanted to see him, see his expression, and at the same time I was afraid to. I needn’t have worried. I couldn’t read his eyes at all. His thick, dark lashes were lowered, keeping me from seeing more than a glimmer of his eyes in the fading light.

“You’re bleeding,” he whispered, moving closer and kneeling next to me. “Are you all right, Ember?”

My burnt leg felt like it was on fire again from all the twigs that had brushed against it, my head was hurting, my hands were scraped and raw, and my heart was broken. So, yeah, I was just frigging peachy.

“I fell.”

That about covered it, all right. My hands were bleeding and bruised because of the falls I had taken while running away from the problems I knew I would have to face and deal with in the long run. My heart was bleeding because I had been stupid enough to fall for him, despite him branding me like a choice steer. So, yeah, ‘I fell’ summed it all up perfectly.

He reached for my hands where they rested on my stomach, and I drew them away before he could touch them. Even in the deepening shadows I could see the flash of anger in his eyes.

“You think I would hurt you?” His jaw was taut and there was a biting edge to his voice.

I think you already have, I thought, looking up at him. I saw him flinch and immediately wished I could take it back. Knowing I couldn’t, I shrugged and said, “Vampire plus bleeding wounds can’t add up to anything good, you know?”

So fast I never saw him move, he reached out and wrapped his hands around my wrists in a gentle but firm hold. He pulled them away from my chest and skillfully transferred both wrists to one hand. I held my breath as he carefully pried open my fists with the other hand and examined the scrapes and cuts on my palms.

“You’ll be fine. The wounds aren’t deep. I’m more worried about your leg. You need to let Shea look at it when we get back to the house.”

“I don’t want to go back,” I told him, using his grip on my wrists to pull my aching body to a sitting position. “I want to go home, Nathan.”

“You should listen to what Shea has to say,” he said, softly. “There are things she can do, things she can teach you, to help you protect yourself.”

Then he could go. That was what he hadn’t said, what had been left hanging at the end of that speech. If Grams could teach me to protect myself, he could leave. As far as I was concerned, he didn’t need to wait. The sooner he was out of my life, the better.

I jerked my hands away from him, a feat that would have been impossible if he had resisted me even a little. He didn’t. The second my hands were free, I staggered to my feet rather ungracefully.

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