Chapter 4

I exhaled slowly, my fingers brushing over the edge of the counter where a half-dissected lizard lay on top of plastic. I hated science classes because of things like that but what could i do?

I didn’t have to turn around to know Lucian was still there even though everyone had left. I could feel his presence from a mile away. Then his hand closed around my wrist.

Not just closed, seized. His fingers dug into my flesh, not enough to bruise, but enough to make my pulse jump ...