Waltzing With Witches: A Sweet Small-Town Vampire Romance, page 28
She opens her mouth to respond, but Abe doesn’t bother to wait. He clicks off and stands, spinning me around in his arms.
“That last bit about killing Wesley. Sounds like you were working on that one for a while.” Crimson eyes soften in the corners as he reaches both arms around me, playing with my hair with both hands. “That was brilliant.”
I grimace. “Maybe also a little rude. I didn’t mean to throw you under the bus about Wesley.”
“I don’t feel that way.” He brings his lips to the side of my neck and makes a path down to my shoulder and the spot that’s still a little tender from his first bite last night. “She was going to fire me this afternoon anyhow. That way, she could say I simply failed in my duties.”
Something about that makes me a little sad. I run my hands under his shirt, up over his cut abs and up to his beefy chest. “Will you miss it?”
“Yes,” he says without hesitation. “And no. Once a Keeper, always a Keeper in a sense. But I will be too busy showing you the rest of the monster world, or perhaps even visiting the human world again. We could spend a weekend there without losing too much time here.”
“Three months,” I murmur. “Three days outside the wards would be three months here.”
When he says nothing, I think about my sisters and their mates. Do I want to lose three months at a time with them? Is it worth it to be part of the world I spent my whole life in? Shaking my head, I mentally close the door on that option.
“I don’t think I want that, mate.”
He grins. “I’m done making decisions on our behalf.” With a sly look, he reaches behind his back and pulls something out of his pocket. When he hands it to me, and I unfold it, I gasp. “Is this a map?”
He grins. “Pick a place, and we’ll visit, although I have a couple of ideas for where to go first.”
I unfold the map, geeking out over the interconnected circles that mark each haven. There are so many, all over the world. “I want to see them all,” I whisper.
Abe points to a spot in South America. “A secret concert is scheduled to happen here in a week or so. The shifter king’s daughter is rumored to be playing, but who knows if she’ll show up. How do you feel about hard rock?”
I grin. “Monster style? Hell yeah.” I give him a thoughtful look. “Would Richard know for sure if she’s going to be there? I’m all about a surprise appearance.”
Abe gives me a wicked look. “He’s the king’s best friend, and she’s not allowed to make public appearances, so I suspect not.”
Ha, love that. A fiery, rule-breaking shifter princess who plays hard rock? Sounds like my kinda girl.
“I love this, Abe,” I murmur, stroking my fingers over the iridescent markings on the map’s surface.
“Thought you would,” he says with a knowing smile. “This all started with a map, Morgan. It only seemed fitting that we should end this journey and begin a new one with another.”
THE END
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