Kiss of Death (The Briar Creek Vampires, #1) by Jayme Morse & Jody Morse by Jayme Morse Read Free Book Online

will do whatever it takes
to see his team win. Austin was clearly a winner.
    Lexi heard the ground crunching and panicked.
Was it an animal? No one had ever specified where Austin had been
killed. Had it happened in the backyard?
    The crunching came closer and just as Lexi
was about to run, she saw a tall figure approaching her. Before she
could scream, she realized who it was.
    “Gabe! What are you doing here!?” she cried
out, clutching her chest in reaction. “You scared me.”
    “I’m sorry. I saw Dan leaving, so I thought
you might be out here. Do you mind if I sit down?”
    “Not at all.” Lexi gestured to the empty
space where Dan had been sitting only moments before. She felt
slightly relieved that she would be sitting next to Gabe this time.
She couldn’t put her finger on exactly what it was, but something
about Dan unnerved her. She brushed the feeling away, accepting her
conclusion that she was just being paranoid, probably because he
had gotten too close to her too soon. Lexi didn’t let people in
easily, which she had always attributed to her father abandoning
her.
    “Is everything okay? Dan seemed a little
upset when he left.”
    “Yeah, everything’s fine. I just wanted to
talk to him about Austin. What are you doing outside so late,
anyway?”
    “I guess I’m a night owl,” Gabe chuckled.
“The moon looked beautiful tonight and I needed the fresh air.”
    “Me too! I can never sleep at night. We have
something in common.”
    Gabe grabbed her hand, intertwining his
fingers in hers. “We have more in common than you realize.”
    She furrowed her brow, trying to think of
something else they had in common, but came up empty handed. She
shrugged it off, deciding to ask him what had been on her mind all
night. “Did you know Austin well?” She was surprised that she
didn’t already know what his answer would be. Lexi half-expected it
to be “yes,” because he had been at the funeral, but Gabe seemed
like the polar opposite of Austin.
    “Not really,” Gabe responded, staring at the
sky. “We didn’t have much in common. He was pretty popular around
here. I keep more to myself, I guess. We always got along, we were
just different.”
    Lexi nodded. “I understand. I’m sort
of…different…at my school too. I have friends, but I’m sort of
different.”
    Gabe reached over and grabbed her hand. His
icy cold skin against her warm flesh sent a shocked shiver down her
spine and made her heart pound in her chest. Gabe smiled.
“Different can be good sometimes, Lex.”
    She smiled at his new nickname for her. It
had been a long time since someone, other than her mother, had
called her “Lex.” Shrugging, she said, “I guess. I just always
wished I had fit in more.”
    “I know what you mean,” Gabe said quietly. He
poked her in her ribs. “See, that’s another one of the things we
have in common.”
    Lexi giggled. She hated to be tickled, but if
it was an excuse to have Gabe’s hands on her, she’d deal with it.
His tickling suppressed and Lexi stared into his deep blue eyes
before leaning into him, pressing herself firmly against his toned
chest.
    She tilted her chin up, and caressed his lips
softly with her own. Gabriel stared back at her, and she allowed
him to fill her mouth with his tongue. The icy feel of him against
the warmth of her mouth caused her breath to catch in the back of
her throat. He slowed their kiss with a few pecks, nibbling gently
on her bottom lip. Gabe pulled away from her, turning her in his
arms so that she could lay between his legs.
    Lexi leaned against him. “I must have a
fever,” she breathed. “You feel really cold.”
    Pressing the back of his hand against her
forehead, he said, “You don’t feel warm to me.” Nibbling on her
neck, he whispered, “Maybe I just make you hot.”
    Lexi giggled. “Maybe you do. I should
probably go inside now, though. If I don’t soon, everyone will come
out here looking for me.”
    “Or you could just spend the