Chapter Fifty-Five

Star gazing

Once again the wolfsbane does the trick and I wake up feeling refreshed having had no bad dreams. I check the time and I’ve missed lunch! I head downstairs to find everyone playing a board game in the front room.

“What’s going on?” I smile at their bickering.

“Tucker is cheating…” Blake exhales her breath in frustration.

“I’m not cheating, your just a sore loser!” He smirks taking game money out of her hands.

“You’re out!”

“This game sucks anyway…” Blake stands up walking to the kitchen.

I look at Lance who is closest to me, sitting at the first seat on the sofa. Weirdly I want to sit on his lap and curl into him but I don’t know how to. So I sit on the edge of the sofa, looking at Lance’s game money and whether he is doing well. My stomach swoops as I am pulled over the edge of the sofa by his sexy strong arms and placed on his lap. He puts his arms around me, cocooning me safely into his chest and rests his chin on my shoulder.

The game ends with Colette finding