Bound by Danger (The Alliance #6) - Brenda K. Davies Page 0,60

she to judge his life when it was so different than hers? Maybe he found her having had past relationships weird.

And she’d had three relationships in the past. One was her high school boyfriend. They dated until the summer before their senior year when his dad got a different job and they relocated to California.

Heartbroken by their separation, they’d tried having a long-distance relationship for a couple of months, but it didn’t work. He was the one to end it, but by then, she already knew it wasn’t going to work.

Originally, they talked about him coming home for college, but he met someone new and never returned. They reconnected through Instagram a few years ago, but it had been years since they last talked, and then he was single and living in Japan.

Their breakup was difficult for her; he’d been her first everything, and she’d pictured them getting married one day. However, once she got to college, she was glad they went their separate ways. She’d experienced many things that she wouldn’t have if they were still together.

In college, she dated another guy for her sophomore year, but she ended it when it became apparent partying was more important to him than school or her. Worried about his drinking, she tried to talk to him before breaking it off, but he wouldn’t hear it. She had no idea what became of him after he failed out of school.

And then, there was Carter. Although, she didn’t know if she could consider someone she only dated for three months and never had sex with a relationship. Yet, despite their short time together, he had become the most significant relationship in her life.

However, she told him about her high school and college boyfriends, but she didn’t tell Lucien about Carter. She didn’t know how he would react to the revelation, and she preferred not to recall that horrible time in her life while locked in his arms. Their lives were at risk, and they were hiding from Savages, but she was inexplicably happy with him.

As the days passed, he fed on the men who arrived, and they took some clothes from a couple of travelers. Every morning, they went to the diner for breakfast. She usually brought something back to the motel for lunch, and they returned for dinner.

When they were in the room, when they weren’t having sex, they slept or talked for hours. She’d memorized every detail of his body, and some of the things he did to her were probably illegal in a few states, but she relished each discovery they made about each other.

Their time together would end soon, and she dreaded when it did, but until then, she chose to enjoy every second they shared.

Though it hadn’t even been a week since they escaped the Savages, he’d already put on a lot of weight. With every passing day, he became more handsome as his face filled out and color returned to his skin. His eyes were mostly black now, but whenever they left the room, they shifted back to red, and he became as alert as a guard dog.

On their fourth day in the hotel, it was almost lunchtime as they lay in bed together. He ran his fingers up and down her body while they talked about their favorite music and the festivals she’d attended.

Music festivals sounded like a circle of Hell to him, but her eyes sparkled while she gushed about them. He’d learned she loved all kinds of music while he leaned toward Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and the music of that era.

Callie’s voice trailed off in the middle of her sentence when Lucien’s hand stilled on her belly, his head lifted, and he stiffened against her. When his eyes turned red and latched onto the door, a chill caused the hair on her arms to rise.

She turned her head to look at it too. Holding her breath, she waited for a monster to rush into the room.

Chapter Twenty-Six

“Lucien?” she whispered.

He leaned over and kissed her. “Get dressed.”

He rose from the bed, and Callie scrambled to gather her clothes while he tugged on his jeans. She was pulling her shirt over her head when a loud knock reverberated against the door.

The sound caused her to jump as uneasiness crept through her belly. She had no idea what was on the other side, but she suspected their time here had come to an end.

Lucien checked to make sure Callie was dressed before he put his eye to