I looked up at Cian for a minute and let that statement sink in...
Oh wait! I have to take his hand...good going with the reaction time...
I unsurely reached my hand out and placed it into his. He gave me a weird look.
“What? I’m not going to bite you. The moon isn’t full,” he added and for a second he seemed to regret saying it. I gave a smile and shook my head.
“I know that.” All doubt vanished from Cian’s face and was replaced with the smile I loved. He pulled a bandana from inside his pocket and I stared at it. Cian simply shrugged and I closed my eyes.
I felt the cool cloth being placed over my eyes and he adjusted it on the bridge of my nose.
“Can you see anything?” his voice asked. I shook my head no. “Good.” He crashed his lips onto mine and held the back of my head. I inhaled in surprise. His soft lips stayed there for a small amount of time before he pulled away.
“Was that the surprise?” I asked breathless. My heart was beating 200 times a minute and I felt my face heat up.
Grr...redness...
He laughed again, “No. Here.” He grabbed my small hand and engulfed it in his own warm hand, leading me out of the room. Somehow I had gotten the feeling that he was walking backwards, and it wasn’t from the fact that he had slammed into a few wall corners and almost fell down the stairs. Nope, couldn’t tell form that at all...
Finally, after a few more choice words for a doorknob that had to be in that particular place so it could hit his funny bone, I had to bite the inside of my cheek to stop myself from laughing, but the smile must have been evident on my face.
“Ah. So you enjoy my pain, do you?” I bit the inside of my cheek harder and shook my head quickly. I could almost see that wide grin on his face right now.
A sudden, cold breeze alerted me to the fact that we were outside now.
“Oh, so you’re trying to freeze me now because I smiled at your nice language getting here?”
A sharp bark of laughter pierced the cold air and he tugged on my hand, just enough to make me lose my balance. I fell into his chest and felt him wrap his arms around me. He was so warm. I marveled in the fact that, even in this godforsaken temperature, he could stay so warm.
“Better?” I shivered as his breath was near my ear and I buried my face in his chest. It rumbled with a deep chuckle and he wrapped his arms around me tighter. “You are a strange mortal girl, you know that?”
I didn’t answer. What could I answer it with? So, we stood there like we had when we had been kissing. Just enjoying the feeling of being in each others arms, of course mine were on his chest because I would get gooseflesh if I put them around him. It was November for crying out loud!
But I was jolted out of my thoughts as Cian turned me in his arms and walked behind me, his arms still secured tightly around me, keeping me warm. I heard the grass crunch underfoot as we walked over the frost-covered ground. Then the crunch got louder as we stepped onto some frozen leaves. Cian had to steer me around trees and make sure he didn’t trip up on any roots as he did.
At long last we stopped walking and I felt him undo the knot on the bandana and pulled it away from my eyes. I gasped as I saw a huge valley in front of me.
If I had walked a few feet forward I would have been at the edge of the cliff we were looking over. The sun was starting to set in the distance (doesn’t days getting shorter in the winter suck?) and I turned around to see Cian with his hands in his pockets grinning sheepishly until he strode over and stood beside me.
“This is where I came to think about things, when I first became the alpha.”
Well, I guess they refer to their leader as “the alpha.” Scratch the past assumption of “king.”
“Ah. Here comes the blue moon.” My attention snapped up to where Cian had his gaze focused.
No. Effin’. Way.
The blue moon that we looked at had very familiar white clouds circulating it. Too familiar...
 VicinityObscenity · Thu Feb 14, 2008 @ 12:42pm · 0 Comments |
