think? Reading my mind when you have me blocked from yours. How are you doing that anyway? I’ve given you my blood; your mind should be an open book to me.”
“ And what do you plan to do with it? My mind, I mean. Have me go to meetings with you so I can tell you what people really think of you? Or did you want me to manipulate their mind so that they see things your way?” She put her finger on her chin as if she were thinking on it. Then when she snapped her finger as if she’d figured it out, her grin did not reassure him. “I know. You want me to bring you victims so you can have your way with them as you drain them. Whatever the reason, you’re not getting in. I don’t know how I can do half the crap I can since the day my mom’s car was high-jacked, but there you have it. I can block you and anyone else, and fuck you for wanting to control that part of me.”
“ I don’t.” She snorted, and he took a step toward her. The sun was pulling at him, not badly yet, but it would soon be necessary for him to leave. And he was taking her with him. His next step brought him to within touching distance, but he didn’t touch her. “Will you please come back to my house with me? I want to make sure that you’re safe.”
“ No.” He reached for her then and felt the connection almost as soon as his fingers brushed against her skin. But in the next second, less probably, he was sailing across the cave and hitting the stone behind him. His last thought was, fuck, she is strong.
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Samuel was just putting Kendal, his precious son, down for a nap when he felt someone enter his mind. He thought it was Stephen, but as soon as the woman spoke, he was glad then that he’d not said the glib remark to him about having a mate. He could feel her anger the moment he let her in.
That vampire is hurt. Can you send someone to get him? I’ve tried to reach out to the wolves, but I can’t get the one in charge to answer me yet. Samuel moved down the stairs after telling the nurse he was leaving the house and that Kennedy would be back shortly. Are you listening to me?
Yes. I have someone here, and he requires a good deal more of my attention than you do at the moment. Where is Stephen? She told him in her home.
He banged his head on the wall when this new thing got the better of me. He could hear her frustration, but he was no less confused. For some reason I can do this new bit with my mind. I only meant to shove him away, but he flew out like I’d hit him with a rocket. He hit his head. Pretty hard, I’m guessing, for it to crack it like it did. Had you asked me, I would have thought the stone would have given before his hard head would have.
Samuel decided right then and there that he liked this girl. She had a sense of humor that made him smile even though things were very serious. If by your home you mean the cave you’d been in when we found you, I’m on my way. And I will contact Jimmy too to have him meet me there. Don’t hurt him.
I won’t. She was snappish too, and he found that to be as funny as anything. You know, you people are getting on my last nerve. All I did was save my friend and him. You’d think he’d be a little more inclined to do as I asked instead of… When she stopped talking Samuel was suddenly afraid. Shifting quickly, he moved toward the cave, reaching for Jimmy at the same time.
We’re close, but we can’t go to her. Not yet at any rate. There’s enough power coming from this place that I’m afraid to let my men go near it. Samuel told Jimmy it was the girl and she was having some issues about controlling it . No shit. I think there are about ten kinds of shit going on in there right now, and I’m not risking my neck to find out what it is.
I’m on my way. Hopefully by the time I get there she’ll have it calmed down. Oh, and she knocked Stephen on his ass. She said she cracked his head open. Jimmy laughed and he joined him . I hope she does it a few more times while
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