Glimmer (Glimmer and Glow 1) - Page 91

Don’t think about that night. You’re going to spook yourself.

Since she’d told herself not to recall the details of that night, that’s precisely what her brain decided to do, of course. She could hear that eerie woman’s call replay in her memory. Her eyes opened in the darkness, searching out familiar landmarks in the large suite. Her ears, too, went on high alert, as if on a search mission.

And she heard precisely what she dreaded hearing.

Aaa—eee!

Alice started. It was like the voice from her memory had jumped out of her head and into the house. It was indistinct, and she couldn’t quite make it out, but she had the single horrifying thought that the voice had been calling her name.

“You okay?”

“What?” Alice asked in a high-pitched voice, Dylan’s deep, sleep-roughened voice ringing in her ears. His hand opened on her naked hip and followed the curve up to her waist. It took her a moment to realize she’d awakened him when she jumped. She waited, anxious for the woman to call again so that Dylan could confirm it. Silence pressed on her ears.

“Alice?”

“Uh … yeah, I was dreaming. Sorry I woke you.”

His warm hand coasted down her thigh. “It must have been a nightmare. You’re covered in goose bumps. What were you dreaming about?”

“That woman …” she muttered.

“What woman?”

She swallowed thickly. “Nothing. It’s fading,” she evaded. “I don’t remember.”

He didn’t reply, but his warm hand kept moving, soothing her roughened, tingling skin. She was positive she hadn’t convinced him.

As the seconds passed, however, she realized she was being ridiculous. There was no way Dylan could have possibly understood that strange, atavistic fear that had swept through her just now. She sensed him lifting his head, and realized he was glancing at the clock.

“It’s the time we usually wake up,” he said. She snuggled deeper into his hold, taking solace in it.

“I know. Bad luck.”

“Maybe not.”

She turned her chin toward him and felt his nose and lips nuzzle her ear. “What do you mean?”

“We could take advantage instead of going back to sleep right away,” he said, making her shiver in pleasure as his lips moved against her ear.

“What’d you have in mind?” she asked, wiggling her ass against him. He grunted softly and spread his large hand over her naked hip.

“That, for certain,” he said dryly, sinking his fingers into her buttock suggestively. “But maybe we can go up and catch the sunrise first?”

She turned onto her other hip hastily. “Really?”

“Yeah. Why not?”

“For someone who claims he doesn’t do romance, you certainly get some pretty romantic ideas.”

“Are you complaining? Because if you are, you’re going to cut off my attempts just as I’m getting started,” he said dryly, whipping the sheet and comforter off them.

She jumped and laughed when he swatted her butt playfully. “No complaints, I promise.”

“Then on your feet, you romance-slacker.”

TEN minutes later, Dylan led her from the kitchen to the backstairs they’d taken that first evening of the party, when he’d found her alone in the dining room. Dylan had quickly and efficiently made them cups of coffee using the Keurig machine in the large kitchen. They both clutched steaming mugs now as Alice followed him up to the second, third, and then a fourth level of the stairs.

“Where are we going?” she whispered. Dylan had turned on a dim light to illuminate the narrow set of stairs, but Alice realized that their spontaneous little activity in the darkness had a furtive, exciting feeling to it, similar to how a lot of things felt in this grand old house.

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