Saving Sarah (17 page)

Heat filled her cheeks at Evelyn knowing, but it wasn’t as if her friend hadn’t undergone the same thing. Pulling back, Sarah walked to sit on the edge of the bed. “I feel great, wonderful, actually. But come sit by me and tell me more about you. How far along are you? Have you thought of any names, a gender you’re leaning toward?”

“I’m not sure yet.” For moments, her friend studied her face. “Sarah, please. I know this must be hard for you.” Evelyn sat down on the bed, grabbing her friend’s hand. “There’s plenty of time to talk about the baby. Right now, let’s just focus on you. Brandon thinks he can find out more about Tom by doing this. I couldn’t agree more. There’s nothing to be afraid of, I promise.”

Cautiously, Sarah looked up at Devon, then Gavin. “I trust you, Ev. I know you wouldn’t let anything happen to me. But really, I’m okay about your pregnancy. Please don’t keep anything from me because you might think it will upset me. I’m better now, I promise.

“Let’s get this out of the way. I want to hear about the baby. If this is the only way to get you to tell me the details then what do I need to do to get started?”

“That’s my girl.” Evelyn waved Brandon in their direction. “I want you to lie back on the bed. You need to get in the middle though. Gavin will be on one side of you, Brandon on the other. He’s going to…bite you, and then after he’s finished we’ll leave you and your mate alone while we discuss what we’ve learned with Devon.”

Sarah nodded and crawled to the middle of the bed. She could feel her heart hammering away at what was about to happen. Everyone kept saying it wouldn’t hurt. What if it did? What if something went terribly wrong?

Brandon and Gavin settled themselves beside her. Panicked, Sarah bolted into a sitting position. “Devon…”

Devon quickly reached her side. “What is it? Sarah, if you don’t want to do this, all you have to do is say so. We’ll stop right now.”

“No, I just…Just tell me everything will be okay. When you go discuss this, you won’t be gone long, right?”

A smile stretched across his face flashing straight, white teeth. “No, I’ll hurry back as fast as I can.”

“All right.” Sarah lay back against the bed and closed her eyes. “Brandon, if you hurt me, so help me God…”

 
A loud laugh echoed through the room. “No worries. I won’t hurt you. Evelyn would have my hide. Trust me, the last thing I want to do is upset her right now her. That woman has a temper like you wouldn’t believe. The hormones, my God! ”

“I can hear you,” Ev said, laughing.

“Right. Okay, Sarah I want you to relax. Gavin, do me a favor and face her toward you and kiss her. She needs to be…well, completely relaxed, if you know what I mean.”

Sarah felt Gavin’s arms go around her as he pulled her to face him. She looked deep into his eyes, and like every time she rested close to his body, she instantly calmed. The brush of his lips was soft against hers, gently coaxing her mouth open to receive his tongue.

The remaining people in the room vanished with the first intoxicating burst of his flavor. Heat flowed freely throughout her body, increasing the moment Gavin’s hand trailed over her hip and up her ribs. When his hand slid against the bed and wrapped around her neck, Sarah was so lost in their kiss, she hardly noticed how exposed her neck became.

Fingers weaved into her hair, at the nape of her neck, pulling her deeper into the passion she felt surging through her. A slight sting pierced her neck, instantly vanishing. A feeling only Sarah could describe as body euphoria filled ever crevice of her being. What felt like instant and multiple orgasms combined made her dig her nails into the muscle underneath Gavin’s T-shirt.

His hand tightened in her hair while they moaned into each other’s mouths simultaneously. Thoughts vanished into a jumble of complicated twists while Brandon sifted through the events of her past. She knew what he was doing, but her brain couldn’t focus, no matter how hard she tried. Overpowering pleasure seemed to be the only thing Sarah could process.

Gripping Gavin’s back tighter, she forced herself not to go any further with him, no matter how much she wanted to. As long as she didn’t forget people watched in the distance, she couldn’t touch him the way she wanted.

“Brandon,” Gavin pleaded, breaking his mouth away from hers only for a moment. She knew he wanted her just as much as she wanted him. The hardness of his cock pushed against her stomach, causing her to fight against throwing her leg over his hip to have him closer.

Images began to flash in Sarah’s mind, leaving her frozen. Everything disappeared as Tom’s fangs sank into her neck. The same pleasure she experienced now made her plead out to him. She couldn’t believe the way she could see herself acting. It was so unlike the way she responded to her bets. Promises poured out of her mouth. Promises she knew she’d never keep if she were in her right mind. She could feel the fangs ease out of her neck, and the light blue eyes blazed down at her.

“
You belong to me now, Sarah. Tell me you belong to me.”

“No,
”
she could hear herself whisper.
“I can’t. I’ll do anything tonight, tomorrow night, a month from now, but I don’t belong to anyone.”

“Maybe not now, my dear, but you’ll eventually beg me to make you mine. You promise me a continual affair, something your mind tells me you never do, but I want more than that.”

“I said I can’t.” Sarah could feel the bliss begin to wear off and her mind clearing. “I said affair. You’d be smart to take me up on my proposition. It’s one I’ve never offered to anyone.”

The length of Tom’s cock eased inside of her. Holding in a moan, Sarah focused on not giving into what he wanted. She couldn’t belong to him. Her heart would always belong to someone else.

“You will be mine, Sarah.”

 
She wrapped her legs around his waist, ignoring his words. All she wanted to focus on was the way his cock felt sliding inside of her. And those fangs, she wanted to feel them again and again. But she wasn’t willing to give herself over to him eternally for it. She knew what he meant, what he wanted.

While Tom thrust into her repeatedly, Sarah could feel herself tightening. The instant her orgasm rocked her body fangs sank deep into her neck again causing her to scream at the intensity of her release. Blackness took over, as she hovered on the brink of unconsciousness.

“When I call tomorrow you’re going to be begging me to come get you, to fuck you like I just did. Would you like to bet on it, my dear Sarah? You like bets so much. Don’t think I couldn’t hear you and Red discussing me. How about we place a wager? If you meet me, I win. Therefore, you will forever belong to me. If you don’t, you of course win, and well…let’s face it. You’ll belong to me regardless.

“If I wasn’t being watched so closely by Channing, I’d turn you tonight. But, he’ll know. He knows everything. I can’t afford for him to find out my plans. You see, I don’t have that many chances left. One more mistake, and I’m history. Masters really don’t like their children to make trouble.”

Fangs sinking back into her neck was the last thing she felt. Sarah’s memory ended, leaving her feeling nauseous. Blinking, she tried to bring the room into focus. Gavin’s blurry face looked at her quizzically.

“Brandon, stop,” Sarah whispered.

“She’s going to be sick. Stop,” Gavin snapped.

The fangs exited her neck leaving her feeling weak. The room began to spin, but she fought the queasiness. She wasn’t sure what she expected, but it wasn’t that.

“How did you fight the pleasure? You shouldn’t have been able to resist the lust no matter what you saw. Actually, you shouldn’t have cared what you saw. The visions should’ve gone to the back burner, so to speak.” Brandon got off the bed and walked around to face her. Gavin brushed the hair back from her face while she tried to stop the rolling in her stomach.

“I don’t know. The pleasure vanished the moment the images appeared. Who’s Channing, Brandon?”

“Channing? You can’t be serious.” Devon walked over to them, anger filling his face. “Channing has been a pain in
my
ass for the last fifteen years. I’ve only run into him a few times, but every time, there’s always some kind of trouble following him around.”

“Devon’s right,” Brandon sighed. “If Channing is Tom’s master, then we’ve got trouble indeed. I don’t know him well. My master warned me a long time ago to steer clear of him. He’s known in the vampire community for playing dirty. I guess we’ve found the reason why your stalker has waited a year. Anyone would be stupid to go up against Channing.”

“But Tom’s afraid of him. Can’t we go tell him about what’s going on?” Sarah sat up in the bed, swaying slightly. She couldn’t help but wonder how much blood Brandon took while unlocking her memories.

“You can’t just go up to Channing MacGregor and strike up a conversation. It just isn’t done. Plus, we’d never get past his guards, although if truth be told, he doesn’t need them. His powers are like nothing you can imagine.”

“Powers? What do you mean?”

Sarah stared at Brandon, confused, but he didn’t continue. Throbbing began to manifest at the back of her head, and it took everything she had to remain sitting.

“Sarah, I think you need rest. You’re really not feeling well.” Gavin’s soothing voice had her leaning toward him.

“Yeah, that’s because she fought the glamour.” Brandon said softly. “If she wasn’t marked, she wouldn’t have stood a chance at fighting it. It’s just a headache. The pain should subside soon. I need to make some calls and Evelyn needs rest. If Tom is stupid enough to come over here, then he deserves what you two do to him, but do not leave Sarah. If you do, you’ll regret it. He’s watching at all times. I guarantee it.”

Brandon took Evelyn’s arm and led her to the bedroom door. “Oh, and there’s one thing I know that Sarah couldn’t, and that’s his determination to have her. When a vampire locks a human’s mind, they leave an imprint. His allowed me to see what he thought at the exact time this took place. She knocked him down a peg by not begging him to stay like every other girl does. He’s used to them pleading him to either change them over or be with them forever. That’s why he wants her. He knows she won’t submit to either.”

“We won’t leave her,” Devon said, sitting on the other side of the bed.

Nothing had turned out the way Sarah expected it to. Besides Channing’s name, they didn’t know anything new. Now, not only was her head pounding away, her stomach still felt heavy with nausea and the effects of Gavin’s kiss. The combination wasn’t something she liked very much. At least she knew an aspirin would take care of the headache. As for her craving, well, she’d take care of that as soon as the opportunity presented itself.

“Ev, go get some rest. I’ll call you later. And, I want details of everything you’ve thought of so far, names, ideas for a nursery, everything.”

Her friend laughed and leaned her head on Brandon’s chest. “I’d be happy to go over everything with you later. Right now, I’m going to nap. It seems lately I can’t get enough rest.”

“No joke. She’s been sleeping all the time. I’ve never known anyone to not hear an alarm clock in the morning, take a nap during the day, and still want to go to bed early. She sleeps more than a newborn,” Stephen said, teasing her. “Anyway, we’ll see you all tonight, right? It’s movie night at Ayden’s. He called me just before we got here. Nicole is anxious to meet Sarah.”

“We’ll be there,” Devon said.

Everyone said their goodbyes, and Gavin quickly locked the front door behind them and brought Sarah medicine. Thoughts of movie night set her heart racing and her head throbbing harder. Finally, she’d really get to meet Nicole. Evelyn spoke of her so frequently, she felt like she already knew her. Sure, they’d spoken on the phone, and been introduced before, but it wasn’t the same.

Evelyn and Nicole were a part of something so big, a culture humans never even really thought about—vampires and werewolves. Would the gathering be just like any other, just movies and a group of people hanging out, or would she be walking into something unexpected? Maybe movie night wasn’t really a movie night at all. What if the words were code for something else entirely?