Taste of His Skin: a Rejected Mates Romance (Claws and Fangs Book 5) by Sarah Spade

Author:Sarah Spade [Spade, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

TASTE OF HIS SKIN

I take a couple of steps back inside the shack.

It’s a retreat. I know it is, just like I know that I’m not moving away from him out of fear. This is Aleks, and despite the red rimming his pale eyes, I’m not afraid of him. He’d never hurt me.

No. I’m backing up because, if I don’t, I’m about to fling myself into his arms. Based on the emotionless expression on his sculpted features in spite of his almost pleading tone, I’m not so sure he’d welcome me. He’s pulled in his vampiric aura so I can’t even get a read on his emotions through that. All I have to go on is the red in his gaze, and the undeniable knowledge that I left him three days ago without a word.

Yeah. I don’t think Aleks is very happy with me.

But he’s here—and I have no idea how. Since throwing him to the ground and mounting him like my wolf wants me to do is currently out of the question, I settle on hugging my mid-section and asking in a quiet voice, “How did you find me?”

In Muncie, I never doubted that he knew where I was at any given moment. Between his patrollers keeping an eye on me, and his supe senses allowing him to track me down anywhere in his territory, no matter where I was, Aleks could find me.

But I’ve spent three nights running. Not once did I catch his aura closing in on me until he appeared in the woods surrounding the abandoned shack mere hours after I did, but he hunted me down so unerringly, it’s almost like he has a tracker on me.

I don’t have a phone. I ditched mine in Muncie so that I wouldn’t be tempted to get into contact with him or Gem or Leigh and her mates; I could always find a way to call them later, but it wouldn’t be that easy. Even if I suspected that my vampire would use human tech to track me—and I never would, not in a million years—he couldn’t because all I have are the clothes in my duffel bag, my deck of cards, a little bit of cash, and that’s all.

I even left my fang behind… so how did he find me?

My tone does something to him. I’m not afraid, but even I’ll be the first to admit that I sounded like it. His expression softens and, before I know it, he’s closed the gap between us entirely. He glides right into the cabin, kicking the door closed behind him with a graceful move before he takes my chin in his hands.

I gasp. Up close, I notice the purple circles underlining his eyes. His fingers feel like icicles against my skin, but that’s not why I gasped. The only time I’ve ever seen Aleks this disheveled was a few days after he’d been the Wicked Wolf’s captive and he was thrown in the pit, half-starved and full of bullet holes, to fight a shifted wolf.

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