Free Summit at Sunset (Sunset Vampire Series, Book 3) by Jaz Primo Page A

slipped it back into her jacket pocket before he even saw her move. “Back on the bike, okay, kiddo?” she suggested while reaching for her helmet.
    But he backed away from her. “Yeah, right. That little stunt was enough for me.”
    “Oh, grow up, Caleb,” she tersely admonished. “I was just having some fun. Like I’d do something to endanger you.”
    Her chastisement caught him off guard, and he stared back at her in bewilderment. “So, that’s your idea of fun?” he countered.
    “We’re being followed by someone. Back on the bike,” she ordered. “Now, Caleb.”
    He hesitated, wondering what was going on. “Really?”
    She loudly snapped her fingers and pointed to the cycle seat. “Do as I say.”
    He blinked at her suddenly demanding attitude and walked over to the bike as he slipped his helmet on. She moved in a blur, reappearing in the driver’s position while straddling the cycle. The engine roared to life a second later, and she turned her head to peer at him over her left shoulder. She revved the engine once as if to punctuate her demand.
    Paige hasn’t acted like this before
, he noted with alarm.
So serious
.
    It seemed completely out of character for her, but he decided that, at the moment, the better part of valor was to comply. He hiked his leg over the back seat, and his arms slowly enveloped her waist.
    But rather than a gradual start, Paige gunned the cycle, and they lurched into movement. Caleb noted that at least she had turned on the headlight. His arms tightened around her, but instead of feeling her softer body as he had earlier, it almost felt as if his arms were enveloping the trunk of a statue.
    The county road seemed deserted as they accelerated through the fog. However, Paige once again noted the pursuing cycle in her mirror. The dark-clad figure appeared to be deliberately trailing them from a distance with their headlight off.
    Less than twenty minutes later, Caleb saw an approaching set of headlights and fog lamps in the distance. And while he realized that they were traveling at a high rate of speed, the oncoming vehicle seemed to also be approaching them at a fast rate.
    Is that who’s been following us?
    Only seconds passed when the vehicle appeared to slow, pull to the side of the road, and then stop with its hazard lights flashing. As they drew closer, Caleb finally recognized the Audi and saw Kat standing with her arms folded before her chest in the bright luminance of the headlights.
    Paige slowed the cycle and stopped a mere foot from the front of Katrina’s car. Her arm reached back around Caleb’s chest and rolled him off the back of the bike with a swift motion. He had barely set his feet onto the pavement before Katrina’s arm protectively wrapped around his waist and drew him before her.
    “I’m going back to check out our visitor,” Paige said in a raised voice that Caleb was able to understand over the purring of the motorcycle’s engine.
    Katrina nodded once, and Paige backed the cycle up another foot then revved the engine. The bike lurched into motion, kicking up gravel as it spun, and she raced back in the direction from which they had just come.
    Caleb’s mouth was agape as he pulled his helmet off and watched with awe as Paige raced away from them. She wielded the cycle as if she were some sort of stunt racer.
    “Get in the car, my love,” Katrina insisted as she squeezed his body slightly in her embrace to focus his attention. “Let’s get you back home.”
    “But aren’t we going to follow her?” he protested.
    “Paige is an alpha and can handle herself perfectly well,” she explained as she herded him towards the passenger side of the car. “She’ll call if she needs help.”
    He stared into her eyes dubiously, but she pointedly ignored him and instead took his helmet from him and tossed it into the back seat. Then she gestured with her head towards the passenger seat and waited for him to sit down.
    “Buckle up,” she prompted as