Page 68 of Chase Me

If that's what she wanted.

But the way she writhed under him when he'd fucked her, how she came apart in his arms every time he'd been inside of her. At least her body recognized their connection, even if her mind didn't.

She'd agreed to stay the first time he'd asked her. Maybe that had been a lie, something to give her more time to figure out how to escape him.

His senses were all out of whack when it came to her. Maybe he couldn't scent lies or love on her. He'd been wrong on both counts.

In the hours that followed, one moment he wasdetermined to leave her alone, and the next he was convinced he should go after her.

Not since the first days since he'd become Wyvern had he second-guessed himself so much.

Well, he needed to man up. Be the warrior he was trained to be, the dragon he was born to be.

The way his brother Wyverns had banded together almost from the moment this trouble started truly amazed him. He thought he needed to hide his problems from them and prove his worthiness to be Wyvern.

What he really needed to do was learn from those who had been Wyverns longer than he had. He had secluded himself from them, and in the meantime, they had been learning how to work together.

He was afraid they would need that teamwork for whatever chain of events had started with the missing relic.

They approached the eastern seaboard of the United States. With each flap of his wings, the light in Jakob’s soul shard grew brighter. It had known its mate all along, glowing from the first time he'd laid eyes on her.

He banked, adjusting their flight path toward where he had originally found Ciara. Match and Cage followed him and as soon as they were over land, Ky joined them in the sky again. She wouldn't be in exactly the same place as she was before, but Jakob trusted his instincts to guide him to her.

“Are you sure this is the right direction?” Ky asked. He hesitated as they flew over a part of landmass that hooked into the ocean creating a cape. “Something or someone is pulling me in that direction.”

“I'm sure. I don't feel her there. Is it possible this is where the relic is?”

“We should split into two groups. We know that Ciara issomehow tied to the relic. If we find it, we may also find her and vice versa.”

“Agreed. When we are in range, I'll connect with Steele and see if he has found anything.”

“I'll do the same with Daxton.”

The group split with Ky and Match heading north, while Jakob and Cage flew south.

Even though they had the time change in their favor, the flight had been long and dusk was setting over the land. It helped Jakob to recognize the lights of the city to where he'd first tracked Ciara. He swooped down over the building he kidnapped her from, but he didn't feel her presence there. Where was she?

He opened his senses as wide as he could and felt a glimmer of her not far away. Within a few minutes, he and Cage were perched on top of a building that overlooked where he felt Ciara. It didn't take long before he found her.

His heart practically busted open from beating so hard at the first sight of her. There, a few floors down from the top, he could see her through the window. She was sitting on a couch with a glass of wine in her hand.

He didn't even know she liked wine. He had an extensive cellar filled with vintages from both his Moravian vineyard and Ky's New Zealand one. One more thing he didn't know about her.

He promised himself he was only here to make sure that she was safe. He'd finally decided in the last hour of the flight. But it took everything he had not to cross over and crash through her window.

A moment later, he wasn't sure if he was glad he hadn't or not. She was joined on the couch by another person—a man.

Jakob's vision went green, creating a hazy sight of her hugging this bastard.

Cage shifted away from him on the roof. “Oh shit. Here we go.”

Fucking hell, this had to be the boyfriend she had talked about. One more indication to Jakob that she did not want to be with him.

The other man stroked Ciara's hair and she leaned into him.

If he watched this for another minute, he would tear the man in half and take Ciara back to his villa to lock away in his dungeon.

Jakob finally made the right choice. He spread his wings and took to the air.

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