Free Point of No Return by Tara Fox Hall Page B

I?”
    “Yes,” he said, full of contentment and love
as he pulled me close to him to kiss me. “Yes, My Love, you
are.”
    * * * *
    After, I lay in his arms as he kissed me
contentedly. “Are you happy?” I asked.
    “Completely,” he said, giving me one of his
rare wide smiles. “I have everything I ever wanted, Sar. I only
wish you were as happy as I am.”
    “There will come a day when I will be,” I
said with a faint smile. “Just be patient.”
    “It is easy to be patient now,” he said
confidently. “I will have you with me for many years, not just a
few. For the first time I see the future stretching before me and
am not somnolent.” He nibbled my neck, his fangs pricking lightly.
“My happiness aside, you should shower, Love. Theo will cooperate
best if you don’t have anyone’s scent but your own on your
skin.”
    “Why?” I said recklessly. “He knows I’m with
you and Devlin. He’ll expect me to smell like one or both of you.
Even if he’s bothered by it, why should I care? We aren’t together
anymore.”
    “Because you still love him,” Danial said
wisely. “Your jealously is talking, and you want to hurt him. Don’t
do it. You’ll just regret it. There is Elle to consider.”
    “You’re right,” I said, chagrined. “As
usual.”
    “I wish I was right more of the time,” Danial
said wishfully. “But you’re just being generous with me.”
    There was a knock. “Danial, phone call,”
Brian said from outside the door.
    “Just a minute.” Danial got up and put on his
robe. “Sar, if you’ll start the shower, I’ll join you shortly.” He
left.
    When I used Danial’s shower, my toiletries
were still where I’d left them months ago. Happy they hadn’t been
tossed out, I used them, then began conditioning my hair.
    Danial finally came in. He embraced me
immediately, almost in desperation.
    “What is it?” I said, worried. “What’s
happened? Is Dev okay?”
    “Another death threat,” he said wearily.
“This one for both Theo and I.”
    “Tell me everything.”
    “You remember Peterson?”
    “Yes,” I said bitterly. Peterson was the man
who’d tried to kill us in Europe. His plan to use Theo and Danial
for experimental subjects for his new explosive bullets gun had
resulted in Theo’s abduction and our time apart, not to mention his
meeting up with Tasha.
    “Well, he has a brother, Maury, who has taken
over the company. He knows Theo and I were behind the death of his
brother, and the carnage of that night. He knows where we live. He
knows Theo lived with you, Sar. Most likely he thinks he still
does.”
    “Who told you all this? Dev?”
    “Samuel.”
    “Why would he care? He hates Theo and he
fought with you over me—”
    “He would never have warned us, except that
he wants you safe, and he’s worried you may be injured or killed by
accident when Maury attacks Theo. He has information Maury plans to
send a bomb by mail—”
    My eyes went wide. “The package!” I
screeched.
    “What package?” Danial said sharply. “When
did it arrive? Where is it?”
    “Right after Christmas, a small package came
to the house for Theo. I brought it with me today. It’s up on
Theo’s desk.”
    “Who was it from?” Danial said, dialing his
phone.
    “There was no return address.”
    “Theo?” Danial said. “Get over here. I don’t
care what you were doing, get over here now! We’ve got a bomb or
something worse here.”
    Danial hung up, and turned to me. “Sar, go
upstairs and carry it out of the house.”
    I gaped at him. “Are you crazy?”
    “If you could set it off, you’d already be
dead. I’ll wager any were who touches it will get a nasty surprise.
I might even be enough to set it off.”
    “You can withstand an explosion better than I
can,” I shot back. “I might be pregnant, Danial.”
    “Sar, you have been carrying that package
around all day. It won’t do anything to you. You are the only human
here to do it. Please, go now. Elle may