Page 29 of Total Eclipse of the Moon
Okay.
She nodded to catch the beat, letting it infuse her. Heat radiated through her chest. Her limbs felt weightless. Energy sparked as magical sensations she hadn’t felt in over a year jolted through her body. She gave a small shoulder shimmy and then full shoulder shake. How she longed to stand up and move. This song had a powerful beat.
It’d been ages since she let loose and simply sang and danced. She seat-danced, full arm movements and even butt shimmies, singing out of a place of pure joy. Magical energy zipped through her in renewal. Right before the next chorus, she tapped Shane on his shoulder. "Come on, sing with me."
She sang the chorus with Antonio. The vampire smiled at her in the rearview mirror, obviously appreciating her incredible seated dance moves.
Shane rotated in his seat. His eyebrows raised with a level of coherence in his gaze. The blue was back in his eyes.
She waved her hands in the air and let the music fill her. Demons might hate pop music, but witches powered up on it. She’d forgotten the release and liberation that came from the pleasure of the music becoming the focus of everything for a few short minutes.
Shane’s baritone filled the space, warming her further from the inside out. With a gleeful laugh, she sang with him, going an octave higher than him.
The song came to an end, the silence deafening.
"Got more on there with good beats like that?" she asked.
Antonio chose a new one.
She scrutinized Shane’s eyes to confirm they remained aquiline clear blue. She winked at Shane. "Smite mewith it, Antonio."
Shane chuckled.
Belting the melody at the top of her lungs, she shimmied in the back seat.
Shane watched her as if transfixed. "You’re glowing."
She did apshawmove with her hands and assumed he referred to how happy the music made her. She continued to let the beat move her.
When the song ended, Antonio said to Shane, "Drink."
Shane reached to the floorboard and came up with a can of soda. He downed it in seconds, following it with a second. He and Antonio made eye contact. Shane squeezed the vampire’s shoulder. "Thanks. I’m going to rest."
Within moments, he breathed deeply, sleeping.
"He’s asleep just like that?" she asked. "Pop music followed by a heavy sugary drink and he’s out?"
Antonio's brow wrinkled as he glanced Shane's way. "The demonio takes much energy from him."
"Interesting." She leaned through the seats to watch him breathe. A small rotation, and she squinted at the vampire, who she caught sneaking a worried glance toward Shane. "You don’t seem psychopathic to me." She slapped a hand over her mouth and scooted deep into the back seat, slumping. "Did I say that out loud?"Oops.
The vampire smirked. A mask of superiority descended over his face in the rearview mirror. "Is that what Cora said about me, bruja?" Even though that meant "witch," this time the way he said it was more of a caress than an insult.
"You just… You seem as if you have some ability to feel."
"Ah, Cora." He put his hand over his chest and sighed. "Tan malvado belleza."Such a wicked beauty.He added in English, "I was young and an idiot when we were involved."
"It was about fifteen years ago. For someone like you, that’s no more than an eye blink in time. I wouldn’t label you young back then."
"A lot’s happened in those years. I’m now working with a demon-possessed lycan, and the bruja who is this lycan’s archenemy is in the back seat helping me stabilize him."
"True. Strange times. Why areyouworking with him? A vampire helping a lycan? Mortal enemies working together?" She scooted back to sit deeper in the leather bench seat and clicked on her seatbelt.
"We're no more enemies than you and him, if we are speaking of intra-species hate." He met her gaze in the rearview.
"I don’t hate him."
"The bug has bitten you in the ass." Antonio smirked.
