Last Breath (The Vampire Defense Agency Book 5) by Katherine Diane

Author:Katherine Diane [Diane, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

Ronan opened the fridge and looked inside. His usual way of eating (or not eating) was not going to work tonight. He had Syren to think about, and he needed to feed her. The thought soured his gut, since he couldn’t feed her, not properly, but he could at least make her some scrambled eggs.

“Mm, did you find something?” Syren asked as he reached for the carton of eggs. Her hand settled on his lower back.

He sucked in a breath. That, she didn’t notice, or maybe simply didn’t worry about. But when he stood there, frozen, long enough to be obvious, she drew back.

He turned away from the fridge, eggs forgotten, letting the door close, and snagged her retreating hand. Her big, gorgeous eyes looked up at him, worried.

“I’m a very, uh, handsy person,” she explained. “I forget sometimes that not everyone likes it.”

“I do like it. I like it a lot.” He pulled her hand to his abdomen. “I’m just … not used to it.”

She splayed her fingers over his abs through the thin material of his gray t-shirt. Her thumb started stroking. It turned him on. Everything with her turned him on. But he didn’t want sex, not right now. He wanted this. Being here with her and making breakfast, doing something normal, something without conflict and stress.

Syren’s hand slid from his abs around to his back. Her other arm circled him too and she … hugged him.

Ronan put his arms around her in return. He wasn’t a hugger. But this, he liked.

“You don’t mind?” she asked.

“Fuck no.”

“It’s been a hard few nights,” she confessed, tucking her face against his sternum. “I just need this for a minute. With you.”

It did something to Ronan, hearing those words. It shifted something inside him. Opened something.

He had felt this during sex too. When he came almost like a normal person instead of someone who needed to fuck roughly for an hour or more before his body would let go.

He didn’t understand why he felt different with her. He wished he could simply accept it as right and good without a small part of him freaking out, but … he wasn’t there yet. It was too unfamiliar. And another part of him was still saying he shouldn’t do this.

Nothing had changed. He was still dying.

Fuck, he wasn’t going to think about that. For one moment, he was going to just have this with her and not think about the future.

He stroked the smooth softness of her long hair lying against her flannel shirt and let himself relax. And funnily enough, that panicky feeling went away. For one second, he felt, fully, the sense of rightness that kept flickering to life at the edge of his awareness.

Until her stomach rumbled. Then he remembered he was supposed to be doing something.

“Breakfast,” he said.

“Oh. Right.”

She squeezed his ass through his warmups, sparking a flash of arousal. Then she disentangled herself from him and basically elbowed him out the way as she went to open the fridge.

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