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Fuck.
I hated it when women were vulnerable. It made me want to protect her, and I didn’t want to feel like I had to protect her. That suggested I felt something more for her than just making sure she stayed alive, and the last time that had happened, my whole life had turned upside down.
Lorraine knew now, and she was pissed. Maybe she would want to go, and maybe that was a good idea. If she left, then I wouldn’t have to worry so much about my stupid feelings. If she left…
“Look, if you want to go, I get it,” I said, though the idea of her leaving made me uneasy. Those guys were still out there, looking for her.
Besides, I’d fucked her, which meant I’d bound her to me for the time being.
Shit. I’d forgotten about that.
“I mean, I don’t think you should go,” I started, but I didn’t know how to continue. She couldn’t go. That was my fault. I’d forced her to stay here because I hadn’t been able to keep it in my pants, and if she chose to leave now, she would find out that was what I’d done.
My mind spun. “They’re still out there, looking for?—”
“Will you show me?” she asked.
“What?” I blinked at her.
“The magic. Will you show me what it’s like?”
I frowned. “You want to see it?”
She nodded. “It’s not every day a girl gets stuck in an enchanted forest, you know.”
I rolled my eyes. “Enchanted forests are only in stories.”
“Right,” she said, pursing her lips together as if she was trying to hide a smile. “It’s completely different than this.”
I shook my head, irritated. She was fucking cute when her eyes danced with laughter, and she was inquisitive about my world. Not a lot of people gave a shit about my world. Ava sure as hell never did. All she cared about was getting what she wanted. It had taken me too long to figure that out.
I kept telling myself I wouldn’t make the same mistakes with Lorraine as I’d made with Ava, but every time I thought I was ready for whatever Lorraine could throw at me, she surprised me by not being like Ava at all.
It caught me off guard. She intrigued me, and that pissed me off. I’d been determined not to let her crawl under my skin, and she was doing it anyway.
I glanced through the trees, turning her request over in my head. Showing her my world wasn’t going to cause shit, was it? What could go wrong?
“Okay,” I finally said. “I’m not supposed to share this with humans, though. We’re hidden for a reason, but I can show you a few things.”
Lorraine’s face broke into a smile that only made her that much more beautiful. Everything about her was beautiful, incredible, magnetic, attractive… I glanced down at her chest. I couldn’t help myself—she wore a hunting dress again, and the brown fabric was in stark contrast to her milky white skin. The dress only covered enough to make her decent in front of others. It certainly did nothing to make her less attractive.
In fact, it left just enough to the imagination to make me want to rip that dress off her and…
I cleared my throat. “Come on. I’ll show you the lake.”
We walked through the trees, away from Rowan’s tree so that the jackass could get back to it if he wanted to. While we walked, she asked questions about the magic barrier around the cottage, about the vale and the power there, and how it all came together.
“I don’t know how it works,” I admitted when she asked about the human world and this one. “I just know that we exist in the same place, but on different planes.”
“How did I end up here, then?”
“It’s getting close to All Hallows’ Eve,” I said.
“What?”
“All Hallows’ Eve… you know what that is, don’t you?”
She frowned at me for a moment. “Do you mean Halloween?”
