and buried his face in my hair. “Did you get through his technologically advanced mental shields?”
“I couldn’t get all the way through.” His arms tightened around me and he breathed me in. “I feel stronger than before. When you took my blood, something happened.”
Something powerful, and I feared that no matter what he’d offered me, I was now married to this male forever. Or rather the fact that it didn’t bother me in the least is what scared me. I didn’t want to think about it. I wanted to hold him and revel in being together. This was our time, and nothing should come between us.
“Summer, let me listen to your heart.”
I straddled him and loved the way his hands found the cheeks of my backside as he settled me on him. I could feel his cock against my core, but he simply placed his head against my breast and sighed as though relieved.
This, apparently, was how one soothed an upset vampire.
I stroked his silky hair and simply let myself be for the moment.
“We’ll have to talk about it,” he murmured.
“Talk about Erna?” I didn’t want to think about her, but I knew my parents would want to have a long discussion.
“Talk about the fact that you shut down that convergence,” he whispered.
I didn’t argue with him because I feared he was right.
And I was in more trouble than I could have imagined.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Kelsey
I stared at the fire Dean had started and wondered how my boys were doing back at home. I felt so far from them. My heart ached at the thought of Fen going to bed not knowing where I was. Gray and Trent had known who I was when they married me. They’d known I wasn’t safe.
Fen hadn’t really had a choice. I became his mother when he’d lost his parents and I’d saved him. This baby growing inside me didn’t have a choice.
I hadn’t even thought about the danger earlier when I’d chased after Summer and the super powerful witch who’d already nearly killed me this morning. I’d followed my instincts and worked with Dev, Kaja, and the mercenaries. We’d herded them to a place where it didn’t matter that we couldn’t see them.
I’d thrown myself in, and I didn’t know if I had the right to do that now that I was a mom.
But I would never even question Donovan going into battle. Well, when he was all superpowered up. He was unique, and without him we were all less safe.
Couldn’t the same thing be said about me?
“Are you all right?” Dean sat down beside me.
We’d spent the last half hour putting together a camp. The security vamps had come with all sorts of handy tech. We were now surrounded by high-tech warding that Taggart had promised would alert us if any creature with magical powers broke the perimeters. There were also wards that would influence creatures to stay away. I’d been promised a lesson on sonic weapons when we had the time.
“I’m good.” I gave him the easiest reply since I didn’t think Dean needed to hear about my maternal worries. “I know Taggart was freaked out that the convergence didn’t pan out, but I’m cool with it. I, for one, will be happy if I never see that void again.”
I’d reached out for Dean when I’d felt it start. I’d grabbed his hand as if I could keep him free of the void that I’d known would come. I’d come to care for Dean. He was alone in this world right now, and I’d felt the deepest need to let him know I wouldn’t allow him to be swallowed up. Even as I’d held on to him, all around us I’d gotten flashes of males and females in a palace, looking back at us and pleading for something. They’d seemed Fae to me. I couldn’t hear them, couldn’t communicate in any way.
Then it had been gone and Taggart had come back complaining about his mental shields and how they needed an upgrade.
He’d then set down a cube and it had made tents with everything we could want inside. His little cubes were fully programmable, something from seemingly nothing miracles.
And we were afraid of the witch?
“I think they’re wondering why it stopped.” Dean looked young and fragile in the dying light. Twilight was upon us and the shadows from the forest suddenly seemed longer, far more menacing than they’d been in the day. “It’s followed a set pattern up until this afternoon. Do you