Chapter 85

Chapter 5

Lola

Do you ever lie awake at night and wonder what it is about that particular moment that causes you to be awake? I tried to tell myself that it had to be the rain tap-dancing on the old metal roof that kept me from resting.

After all, it couldn’t have been the fact that I had over six feet of raw masculinity lying next to me. Or the fact that I could literally smell the essence of his blood, and it drew me in faster than anything I’d ever faced before. I wanted to lick him from head to two. My incisors had long since descended, and I was fairly certain that Jake did not know that I was seconds away from ravishing him.

Do people even say ravish anymore? That’s what this has unraveled to… delirium.

The only thing that had stopped me from sinking my fangs into his neck was that he was my best friend—my only friend.

Did I want to jump his bones? Hell yes, make no mistake about that. I’d have him over me, under me, inside of me. Shit, anyway, he would take him. But what happe