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Blood Warrior(18)



Wordlessly, I lifted my head, letting him slid his arm underneath so that I could use it for a pillow. I snuggled my back into his chest and moved my right hand so that it rested over the top the one he had around my waist.

His chin touched the top of my head and stayed there.

“I love you,” he whispered.

“I love you too,” I responded in a low voice and then squeezed his hand. It wasn’t long at all before the heavy curtain of sleep had me drifting away into my dreams.

***

When I woke, it felt like I hadn’t slept at all. Man, this was not good at all. I needed to be rested and in top condition to be able to fight. Why the heck wasn’t my body cooperating with me these days?

I gently moved Drew’s arm off of me and rubbed my eyes with both hands. I could tell already it was going to be a very long night.

“Morning,” Drew murmured softly, moving his hand to my thigh.

“It’s afternoon,” I corrected him.

He hadn’t even opened his eyes yet, but still responded with a sleepy, “whatever.”

I turned and leaned down so that our lips could meet. He returned my kiss and then rolled onto his back. He still hadn’t opened his eyes. “Come on, it’s time to get up.” I shook his shoulder, making him bounce on the bed a little.

“For once, I don’t want to get up.” He turned over on his other side so that he was facing away from me.

Drew was always up before everyone else. I was an early riser anyway, but he took the gold medal for getting up before the sun. But for the last several months, our schedules had been really crazy and we had been surviving on a few hours of sleep at a time. I didn’t blame him for not wanting to get up.

“Sorry, I wish I could sleep more too.” I lay back down and snuggled into his back. I loved the feel of his skin underneath mine. Briefly, I imagined that the Vampire Apocalypse didn’t exist and that we moved away from Arcadia Falls, just the two of us.

What would we be if we weren’t Hunters? I couldn’t think of anything that I would be good at doing in life. This was what I’d been doing since my mom died when I was fourteen, almost four years.

I’d known Drew that long too. Now, I couldn’t imagine my life without him in it.

I took in air through my nose and let out a long sigh. My world had changed so much since my mother had gone. Mostly, I was in love with hunting and the life that came with it, but there were times when I wished for normal.

I sat up again and flung back the covers. “Come on.” I slapped Drew on the thigh. “We have to get up. And you have to get out of here before someone sees you.

No sooner had it come out of my mouth did we hear a short, barely existent knock on the door. Without waiting for me to answer the door or even call out, the knob turned and the door flew open.

Christina, Zander and Gavin stood in the hallway. Even though we were clothed, I reached down and grabbed the edge of the comforter, yanking it up over us. The move made us look totally guilty, like we were doing something we weren’t supposed to be doing.

“Oh. My. God.” Christina covered her mouth and laughed. “Sorry!”

“It’s not what it looks like,” I muttered. “Now, go away.”

Gavin’s warm green eyes narrowed into an angry glare and without a word, he turned around and stalked away from the doorway.

“Crap.” I flung the covers off of myself so that I could get up.

“Ah! Blood related!” Zander’s hands flew to his eyes so that he could cover them and avoid seeing is non-existent naked sister.

“I’m dressed, you idiot!” I yelled. “Now will you two get the hell out of here?” I picked up a pillow and chucked it toward him. For a girl who never misses with a gun, the pillow totally went off course and nailed Christina hard in the face.

“Dang, Chloe, defensive much?” She picked up the pillow from where it fell on the ground and flung it back at me.

Zander had a grin spread across his face. “Look Drew, pillow fight. It’s a man’s dream come true.”

“Go away,” Drew told him in a sleepy voice.

“Fine, we’re going,” Zander told him. “We just wanted to let you guys know that we are eating in about ten minutes and then we are heading out. We were headed to your room next.”

“We’ll be there.” I marched over to the door and closed it in their faces.

Once Drew and I were alone again he pushed the covers back and finally got out of bed. “Sometimes living with so many people is a real pain in the ass.”

I nodded in agreement. “You better go get ready, apparently we’re running late.”

He grabbed his gun off the night stand. “Someday we will get to lay in bed together and not have to worry about all of this.”