Chapter Sixty-Three

Cronin

The whole place feels abandoned and an eerie silence falls around me. Where has everyone gone? Nerissa clings to my arm to aid her up the stairs into the house. Beta Rafe should be here. They left the Kings overly lavish country home nearly two days ago. I don’t know why they didn’t just fly and save themselves the long, boring journey by car. Nerissa sags against me as her strength begins to fade. ‘Cronin. I can do it.’ She moans at me as I scoop her up in my arms and run up the rest of the steps quickly. ‘Stop being so stubborn.’ I laugh and plant a kiss on top of her head. She relaxes into me and strokes my bare chest where the buttons aren’t done up all the way to my neck. My body tingles from her touch and my cock pumps up from excitement. She is in no way well enough for me to fuck her so its going to have to be me and my hand again later in the shower. All this built-up tension needs to come out before I explode.

‘Rafe, where are you?’ I search through th