Chapter 14 e Laugh

There, he prepared a hot bath and laid her down into it. He hung over the ledge so that they were face to face. She was beautiful. Not only beautiful in her own way, but she was his. There was a part of his soul inside of her, and on the highest spiritual plane, he knew that his inner peace was dependent on protecting her. He caressed her lower lip with his thumb and he inspected her sharp teeth up close, just as Baine had to him. Her teeth were prematurely implanted in her gums with a lot less length than normal, short and futile, because she had fed on Lot’s healing blood too early.

Becca exhaled sharply, the ache in her stomach drew her bellybutton in toward her back, and her shoulders pushed forward. She floated her hand up from the water, grasped his gently, and pushed his thumb from her bottom lip into her mouth toward her lower sharp. Her eyes crept open and planted on his neck.