Page 38 of To Crave Darkly
Levi looked between us, clearly oblivious to the fact that I was about to throw myself at the vampire.
“Shall I come back tomorrow, Levi?” My voice was breathy, and I still had my eyes locked with Jasper’s.
“Only if you feel up to it. Have Jasper or one of his team escort you here when you’re ready. It’s dangerous out there.” Levi came up to me and gave my hand a reassuring squeeze. The movement distracted me from staring at Jasper and Levi’s cool green gaze found mine. Jasper took that moment to leave the room. He was leaving me behind again. He was such a pain in the ass.
“Better catch up. I don’t think he’s going to wait for you.” Levi chuckled as I grabbed my jacket and ran out the lab to chase after Jasper. He’d already made it to the end of the corridor, and I had to run to catch up to him.
“Why do you move so fast?” I asked breathlessly.
He snorted but didn’t answer. I rolled my eyes. Right. Vampire speed.
“Levi said I’m moving into the Base with you. Is that right?”
“Yes.”
Great. We were back to one-word answers. My gut told me it had something to do with whatever had just happened in the lab and earlier in the holding cell. Memories of his mouth devouring mine flashed before my eyes and a shaky breath escaped my lips as I tried to dispel them. I really needed to get a handle on my libido. I’d never been this desperate for sex in my life.
Jasper had stopped a few paces in front of me. His back was ramrod straight and his fists clenched at his sides. Whatever was happening between us was affecting him too, but I figured that Jasper was probably just going to ignore it and hope it would go away. Somehow, I knew that it wasn’t going to go away. Knowing my luck, it was probably only going to get worse and that thought settled uneasily in my stomach.
I huffed out a breath and forcibly turned my mind to other things.
“I thought you wanted to get rid of me. Why am I moving in with you all of a sudden?”
“Plans change,” he replied bluntly.
“You don’t have to be such a dick about it.”
That got his attention. He looked at me over his shoulder, pure murder blazing in his eyes. He let out one of his maddeningly frustrating sighs and I rolled my eyes at him.
“Come on, Jasper. Whether we like it or not, we are stuck together. The least you can do is be a man about it and not behave like a petulant child.”
He growled at me and a smirk crept across my face. It was way too much fun winding him up.
“Nobody talks to me the way you do,” he snarled as he turned his body round to face me.
I marched right up to him. “Well, maybe it’s about time someone did.”
He grunted before leaning down to whisper in my ear. “If you were under my command, I’d punish that smart mouth of yours.”
Wetness pooled between my thighs.Yes. God yesss.
I felt the tip of his tongue flick the shell of my ear and I leaned into him. Then he took a step backwards and looked down at me with a sadistic gleam in his eyes.
“Come on. I’ll get you settled back at the base and you can meet the rest of my team.”
Then he turned on his heel and strode off down the corridor leaving me in a pool of my own desire. Urgh. Stupid vampire. He was so infuriating.
“I hope they aren’t all as grumpy as you,” I shouted down the corridor after him.
His laugh echoed back. “No. Some of them are worse.Muchworse.”
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Chapter 17
LORI
For a military base, this was not what I was expecting. I expected barracks, a mess hall, large buildings, hangers and obstacle courses. Not a giant mansion that looked better suited to a horror film than a base of operations. It was huge. And it had a turret. A fucking turret.
