Summon Lyght(92)

He suddenly launched his own attack and in two seconds had her on the bed, pinned beneath him.

"I want you Abigail. That's all. I want you." The words were hot on her lips before he crushed them with a passionate kiss. He gripped her lower face with iron fingers and forced her jaw open, his raspy tongue plunging in, demanding against hers. He punctuated the daring act with furious growls, the full length of his body pressing her into the bed, pressing into her mind until the hardened bitch in her withered to fragile whimpers.

With only a kiss, he filled her till it felt like he reached the bottom of her soul, his fingers tangled in her hair, pulling, his mouth feasting fervently at hers. She arched into his body, clawed him closer, locked their perfect union   tight with her legs, silently begging him to stay and never leave.

"I want you God damn, I want you." The words croaked out of his beautiful lips and then he leapt off the bed.

Before she could move or say another word, he was gone. Just gone.

Dare laid there as despair came. But it came from without, instead of within, sinking slowly onto her body until she strained with all her might to resist the crushing force. But this pain was different from any she'd ever felt. This despair was bright, not dark. A perfect blade slowly being driven into her heart until her body trembled.

Longing. Promise. Forever. That was its strength. That was its power.

And its beautiful name was Francis.

She finally caved beneath the devastating force and screamed from the agony wracking her body as it left its eternal mark on her.

Francis had marked her.

And all she had to show for it…was regret.





Chapter Thirty-One



"I'm sorry sweetheart, I'll explain on the way." Lyght immediately sifted through the connections in Sam until he found the one that would lead him to her mother.

"I had no idea you meant this when you asked for my help." Sam looked around the endless empty white space. "Where are we?"

"Good question. At the moment, I only know that I'm stuck here somehow. Found it." He took hold of the silvery biological connection Sam and Kassie shared and began following it.

"Oh, I can feel that." Sam walked with him. "Wow, is this really connected all the way to her?"

"Yes."

"How long is it?"

"As long as she is away from you."

"That could be long."

"I know. And my guess is, she flashed someplace safe to her. Which means someplace in Montana." He stopped and looked at Sam. "Can you flash us there? It beats walking."

"You can't?" Sam looked confused.

"I can't. I literally feel like I'm in a straitjacket where my powers are concerned."

"Why?"

He shook his head, not sure. "I think I might be having a bad reaction to the humanity I gained."

Her mouth dropped open. "Like…you're allergic?"

"Wouldn't that be funny?" And not surprising given how things were bloody going for him.

"No, it wouldn't. I can try. To flash us, I mean. Just tell me what to do."

"Close your eyes and think of a place in Montana where you think she would feel safe. Then gather your power into the center of your body and then visualize yourself there."

She closed her eyes and nodded. "Okay."

"I need to hold your hand for that."

She looked at him, held out her hand, then closed her eyes again when he took it.

"Now—" Things blurred before Lyght could finish his sentence. "Wow." He looked around a second later at the real landscape. "What do you see?"

"Our home."

"Good, then we're seeing the same thing. You flashed me out of that strange nowhere cell I was in, thank God. Very good, sweetheart." Lyght felt strange calling her that. But she was the daughter of the woman he was in love with. Which made her like his daughter too.

Lyght took hold of their biological connection until it revealed a direction. "She's east of here. What's in that direction?"

Sam looked. "Town."

"Flash us there. Someplace that nobody will see."

Sam concentrated for a second then nodded and offered her hand. A second later, they were beneath something.

"Holy shit." She laughed a little. "Flashed us under the damn feed store."

"That's perfect, love." Lyght found the connection again. "That way. She's that way." He began crawling and Sam followed.

When the coast was clear, they exited from beneath the building. It soon became apparent they weren't visible. "Nobody sees us?" Sam waved her hand in the face of a passing man.

Lyght sighed, not happy. He'd thought Sam had broken him out of that strange prison. But she'd apparently just added another setting to his world, via hers. And why was his world just a huge white nothing? A cocoon of light.