Free Kiss of Death (The Briar Creek Vampires, #1) by Jayme Morse & Jody Morse by Jayme Morse Page B

gripped the
steering wheel tightly and squeezed his eyes shut, shaking his head
as if he were trying to shake the memory out of his thoughts. If it
were anyone else, she would have freaked out and told them to keep
their eyes on the road, but she felt safe with Gabe.
    “What happened to them?”
    “I’m not sure how to describe it to you, or
if I’m allowed to. A few months later, the mayor made this huge
announcement on the news, saying that it was an accident so that
people wouldn’t be afraid to come here this year. But I know what I
saw, and it wasn’t an accident.”
    Inching herself further into the middle of
her seat, Lexi felt herself shiver. Gabe had probably been right.
She should have never gone to the carnival. After all, she did get
hurt. But, Lexi got lucky. She, herself, could have been the next
person to die.
    Suddenly, she found herself thinking about
Austin again. Lexi wondered if Briar Creek was becoming such a
violent town that people were murdered here regularly.
    Despite what everyone had said about an
animal attack, she knew in her gut that something else had happened
to Austin. Maybe her mom was right for being paranoid about Lexi in
this town. Maybe she should just apologize to her mom and go back
to New Jersey without a fight – at least she was safe there.
    Gabe glided the Jeep into Aunt Violet’s
driveway. Shutting the car off, he turned to Lexi, who smiled at
him. “Thanks for bringing me home, Gabe…and for taking care of me
tonight.”
    “No problem,” he said, brushing her hair away
from her face and moving in closer for a kiss.
    Lexi tilted her head, allowing his lips to
close over hers. She wondered if Gabe could feel her heart pounding
through her chest, which was pressed firmly against him. Bracing an
arm on the driver’s seat, Lexi pulled herself on top of Gabe,
straddling him with her bare legs.
    Feeling his hardness through his jeans, she
shoved her tongue deep inside his mouth.
    Gabe pulled away and trailed kisses down her
neck. As he pressed his tongue against her collarbone and nibbled,
Lexi felt a warm sensation begin in her neck and work its way down
her body. A moan escaped from her throat. No , she thought to
herself. Don’t do this.
    She pulled away from him and sat back into
the passenger seat. “Thanks again. Even though all that happened,”
she made a circling motion with her hand, afraid that her voice
would falter if she spoke about the attack again. She continued,
“I’m glad I got to see you. Thank you for sharing your story with
me…It’s nice to know you trust me enough to.”
    He nodded. “I do trust you, Lexi.”
    She leaned in for a final peck. Gabe kissed
her back lightly on her lips. She pulled back once more and wrapped
her hand around the door handle. “I’ll see you—”
    “What’s wrong?” he asked, interrupting her.
“You’re going in now?” He watched Lexi intensely and licked his
lips.
    She nodded and got out of the car.
    “Fine, whatever,” he said sarcastically.
“Goodnight.”
    Too stressed out from the night to wonder why
he was giving her an attitude, she blew him a kiss, slammed the
door shut, and made her way to the porch.
     
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Chapter 8
     
    “What are you doing here?” Violet exclaimed,
jumping up as soon as Lexi walked through the front door.
    “I’m sorry, am I interrupting something?”
    “No, I just am really surprised to see you
here, Lexi,” Violet said, playing with her robin egg blue pearl
necklace. “I thought that you would still be out with Dan. It’s
still so early.”
    Lexi glanced at the big grandfather clock in
the hallway. It was 11 o’clock. “Dan ditched me, I think.”
    “What do you mean Dan ditched you? He
promised me when I talked to him on the phone that he wouldn’t let
you out of his sight.”
    “Well, he did. Someone attacked me and when I
woke up, I couldn’t find him anywhere.”
    Violet frowned. “Someone attacked you? Did
you see who it was?”
    Lexi shook her head.