Scarlett
Rhodes carries me like I’m a princess...or perhaps a queen. I’m sitting on his broad shoulders, his strong muscles working with every step. His scent of pine wraps around me like a blanket and my cheeks turn molten.
I feel like a burden being carried like this. My broken leg came at such a bad f*****g time, and if I weren’t so high in the air, I would jump down.
But I don’t.
My body is exhausted. So is my mind. I barely slept due to my regular nightmares of Violet dying somewhere, and now, after receiving the threat from the vampires, I can’t calm down.
The only thing on my mind is Violet. If Zane and his vampire queen of a lover have her, then she needs to be saved.
But I’m not strong enough to fight Zane or the other pureblooded vampires. I need Rhodes—and he... he hasn
