LEGIONS OF THE DARK (VAMPIRE NATIONS CHRONICLES) (38 page)

“We can wait for those people to come out of the caverns if the search party doesn’t find us first,” she said now, forcibly bringing her attention back to the problem at hand.

“You think they’re this close?” Crow shivered a little, as if the fear he’d kept at bay for hours when they’d been on the run had returned, crawling up his back to sink pinchers into the base of his neck.

Heddy seemed to be reading the clouds. She hugged his waist tighter, snuggling her shoulder into his armpit. He didn’t smell good, particularly, but he smelled like a man and she loved the smell of men, no matter how sweaty. “It only took us an hour to get here by foot. They’ll find the car, and then they’ll head here, just like we did. If they can follow us across the state, they can follow us here. We don’t have a lot of time.”

“I said, did you pay him? I guess no answer means you paid him on your fucking back. I never trusted Bandy. He’d steal gold from a dead man’s teeth.”

“What’s it matter how I paid him, we got the guns, didn’t we? And I was waiting when you skipped, wasn’t I? Who’s your baby? Who’s always there for you?”

Crow smiled a rare smile, this one dripping with the lust he felt for the girl. “Yeah, you’re my baby. I’d still be back in that cell, wasn’t for you.”

She snuggled into his arm again, breathing deeply and smiling all inside just to be in the circle of his scent. “We have to take that family with us. That’s what we have to do.”

“Why the hell would we want to do that?” He glared down at her, his black brows knitting together. He knew she was smarter than he was, but it still burned him up when she came up with stuff he hadn’t thought of. She knew that, but there wasn’t much she could change about the arrangement. She made the plans. She called the shots. That’s how it had to be.

“We just grab the car, we won’t make it to the line. They’ll tell, Crow. They saw us. They can describe us. Then the cops will know what kind of car we’re driving. On the other hand, if we grab the mom, pop, and kid, they’re insurance. We can drop them off somewhere, after we’re far away from here. I don’t want you put back in prison. We can’t take chances, no chances. I’ve got you now, I don’t want them taking you away again.”

“Yeah, I can see that. Hell. Company. I didn’t really want company around. Who’s gonna drive?”

She kissed him, nibbling softly on his bottom lip. She said, “I will. You sit in back with the gun on the kid. Everything will be fine. We’ll be on the other side of Missouri by dark.”

“God.” He sucked in her lip, then covered her whole mouth, twirling his tongue around hers until she felt the beginning of his erection. She gently disengaged, pushing him back. He was breathing hard. “I don’t know if I can wait,” he said.

She reached down, patted the bulge in the crotch of his jeans. “Yes, you can. You’ve waited for four years already.”

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