chapter 107

I laid in Elijah's arms, my right hand tracing soft lines against his tattooed chest, following the outline of the dark inc that was embedded into his skin.

Elijah had his arms around me, his right fingers gently brushing against my skin, sending butterflies into my stomach.

There was nowhere I would rather be. I felt blessed to be in his arms, to feel the love he had for me, to hear those precious words getting whispered into my ears over and over again.

I never want to lose this moment, and this man.

After Elijah and I had made love post his arrival to the mansion, we laid in bed as he explained what had happened while he was gone.

Just as he had thought, there were close to twenty armed men and women waiting for detective Kevin to arrive with me. He was sure that they had planned to kill both the detective and I the second they had their hands on us.

Dante had done as Elijah told him to do and sent well equipped men to the old church. They successfully extracted the detectives son