My Guardian Vampire: BBW Paranormal Romance (The Guardians Book 1) by Roxy Wilson Read Free Book Online Page A

from that car accident. I remember something else…when I was very young…maybe four years. I’d climbed a tree, couldn’t get down. You were there, but how? How?”
    He let her go as if she’d scorched him. Aric never intended for her to realize that he was the same guy who had been keeping a quiet watch on her all these years. That realization would raise more questions than it would answer. He opened his mouth and closed it again when she fainted into his arms. “Damn!”
    Carrying her, he stood and turned towards the door. The entire team was there, looking at him as if he’d sprouted horns on his head. Aric bit his lip. Now, he was really in deep trouble. From this point on, nothing would remain the same.

 
     
    Chapter Six
    When she opened her eyes, she was lying down on the couch and every one of them was gathered around her. Lacey shivered as fear coursed through her veins. Who were these strange people and why did they bring her here? What did they want from her? Her gaze took in Aric’s hunched form as he sat on the couch at the other end, looking defeated.
    He’d saved her not twice tonight, but twice before also. She remembered now. It hadn’t been a hallucination but a memory. How could he have saved her so many times? And why the hell didn’t he age? He looked the same when she was four, when she was ten, and when she was older.
    Who was he?
    What was he?
    She sat. Mira and Nyle were looking at her as if she were a precious commodity they couldn’t bear to let go, while Aric avoided her gaze. The rest appeared confused. “Who are you?” He didn’t say anything and neither did anyone else. Blood! That’s what she’d seen in the fridge. Why would they have packets of blood in there? Who were these people? Aware that she wouldn’t get any answers, she picked up her back pack. “I want to leave.”
    “Your life is in danger,” he said, still not quite meeting her gaze. “Is there another place that you can go?”
    She drank in the sight of his face, knowing that she wouldn’t see him again. Even though she knew now that he was someone quite dangerous, she didn’t fear him. Sure, she was scared of the unknown. The packets of blood, the strange work they did, that terrified her but when she looked at him, she still felt that she was safest when he was around. His blue eyes sucked her in, made her feel safe. As long as he was around, no one could hurt her. And of course the desire that careened through her nerves whenever he was around was ever present. She simply couldn’t get rid of it.
    What was this strange bond that connected them?
    Perhaps she wouldn’t ever know.
    Lacey stood. “My mom…she lives on a farm in Minnesota.”
    “Would you be safe there?”
    She didn’t know. Lacey had no clue as to what was going on. Why had her life changed all of a sudden? She didn’t want this. “I’ll try.”
    He stood along with her. “I’m going to go with her and drop her off. It might take a couple of days so you guys should just go ahead with whatever we’re planning. I will be back as soon as I can.”
    “You don’t need to come with me,” she insisted.
    He didn’t glance at her as he strode towards the door. “Yes, I do. Let’s not waste any time in arguments.”
    Mira stood. She stretched, her lithe body moving fluidly, gracefully. “She can’t go anywhere.”
    Aric whirled to face her. His eyes gleamed with an unholy fire. “She doesn’t know anything, so it’s unlikely that she would ever lead anyone back to us. Let her go. It was a mistake to bring her here.”
    “That’s what I first thought, but the reality is that unknowingly, you did the best thing that you could have done,” Mira declared.
    He took a few steps forward. Lacey had the feeling that he was holding himself very tightly as if he was prepared for a fight. “What do you mean?”
    “She is the one, the one we have been looking for.”
    If someone had punched him, he might have been less shocked. His