Better Off Undead by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 2940157880453
Amazon: B017C1NAIS
Barnesnoble: B017C1NAIS
Goodreads: 27214688
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Jane’s eyes flew open. She stared up at the ceiling—a really tall, cathedral ceiling—and she tried to figure out just what the hell had happened to her.

Then her hand flew to her stomach. She—

“Don’t,” Aidan said, his voice a rough rumble. His fingers tangled with hers. “Don’t touch the bandage, not yet.”

Her gaze snapped toward him. He sat in a chair that had been pulled right next to the bed. Dark shadows lined his eyes and deep lines bracketed his mouth.

“You look like hell,” she told him.

But he smiled at her. A smile of such warmth and straight-up joy that Jane had to blink away tears.

“You look like heaven,” he said. “My own angel.”

She was as far from an angel as it was possible to get.

His fingers smoothed over the back of her hand. “I thought I told you to stop scaring me.”

She did vaguely remember him saying something like that. “How bad was it?”

“Bad enough that I had a doctor and a voodoo queen working on you at the same time.” He paused. “And I had to give you my blood.”

Jane shook her head. “I don’t…I don’t remember any of that.” But chill bumps rose on her arms. It had tasted good.

No. Jane gave another hard shake of her head. That was just some—some weird dream. Some craziness brought on by the trauma. She hadn’t taken his blood and thought that it was good…had she?

“Probably a good thing. Doubt you’d want to remember your good buddy Dr. Bob stitching you up.”

Yeah, she didn’t want to remember that. She glanced around the room. “We’re at the mansion.”

“I wanted you in the safest place possible. This was it.”

She pushed up, slowly, until she was sitting in the bed. She was wearing one of his shirts—a giant white button-up that swallowed her.

“Dr. Bob will want to come in soon and see you. He’s been checking on you every hour.” Aidan rose, as if he were about to head to the door and get the doctor.

But she tightened her grip on his hand. “What happened to Travis?”

A muscle flexed in Aidan’s jaw. “He…didn’t make it. I’m sorry, Jane.”

Dammit.

“You did make it. You survived.” He swallowed. “And I’ll take that miracle.”

“How close was it? How close did I come to waking as a vampire?”

“You don’t want to know.”

Oh, crap. She must have come very, very close.

He leaned over the bed, over her. Aidan’s gaze held hers. His eyes were so very blue. “I love you, Mary Jane.” The words were deep and strong and they made her feel warm inside. “Know this…I will fight anything, anyone in order to keep you alive and with me. I don’t want to lose you.”

She had to blink away tears and then she thought—why stop them. Jane realized just how close she’d come to losing everything. She jerked him closer, locking her arms around him, and Jane held Aidan as tightly as she could—so tightly that she never wanted to let him go. “I love you,” she whispered.

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