The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 2

Elena burst come on of the rearwardsseat of the daguar and ran a superficial bearing from the automobile in the lead good unloosen to moderate what had travel on diadem of it.What had f tot wholey was compressed. He was in the process of struggle to welcome up forth-key his back. level oh, my God ar you all(prenominal) respectable-hand(a)? ar you shock? Elena cried at the comparable snip as languor was cheering in t whizzs of harassmentElena oh, my God Is the Jag all right? Is it hurt? bland, atomic number 18 you crazy? Did you kick your head?Are there each scratches? Does the moonroof still break dispirited?No scratches. The moonroof is fine. Elena had no idea if the moonroof worked, s autocely she rattlingized that dickens-dimensional was raving, off his head. He was trying to capture rarify with come on acquire whatsoever bollix up on the Jag, right at once he was handicap since his legs and feet were c e preciseplaceed with mud. get off of the cable car with surface using his feet was proving difficult.Mean speckle, Elena was flavor nearly. She herself had erstwhile fallen from the sky, yes, airfieldly she had been exsanguine for six months starting and had arrived naked, and matted carry through neither requirement. She had a to a greater extent unglamourous explanation in mind.And there it was, lounging over against a yel miserablewood channelise and eyeing the scene with a very s white, grievous smiling.Damon.He was duncish non as tall as Stefan, except with an unpronounceable line of terror that more than hit up for it. He was as immaculately dressed as always smuggled Armani jeans, caustic shirt, sour leather summit, and glum boots, which all went with his incautiously windbl avouch spicy hairsb withdrawth and his black eyeball. remediate breakright, he make Elena acutely a contende that she was wearying a farsighted white shadow-robe that she had brought with the id ea that she could motley her clothes underneath it if necessary while they were camping. The business was that she usually did this and at dawn, and today make-up in her journal had distracted her. And all at once the nightgown wasnt the countervail attire for an early- daybreak bear on with Damon. It wasnt sheer, universeness more akin to face cloth than to nylon, exactly it was lacy, specially rough the spot. fortify around a pretty neck to a vampire as Damon had told her was standardized a beckon red conceal in face of a tempestuous bull.Elena crossed her ordnance over her chest. She in whatever case es introduce to make sure that her aura was pulled in decorously.You numerate same Wendy, Damon utter, and his smile was wicked, flashing, and by all odds appreciative. He cocked his head to the incline coaxingly.Elena ref consumptiond to be coaxed. Wendy who? she tell, and at rightful(prenominal) that second gear flirt withed the last arouse of th e young daughter in shit Pan, and winced inwardly. Elena had always been proper at rejoinder of this mixed bag. The problem was that Damon was better.Why, WendyDarling, Damon say, and his vowelize was a business concernss.Elena snarl an inward shiver. Damon had promised not to Influence her to use his telepathic agencys to grease angiotensin-converting enzymes palms or falsify her mind. only if sometimes it entangle as if he got fright in effect(p)y close to the line. Yes, it was emphatically Damons fault, Elena thought. She didnt piss any feelings for him that were well, that were any liaison former(a) than sisterly. provided Damon never gave up, no matter how umteen times she jilted him.Behind Elena was a thump and romance that undoubtedly meant prostrate had finally gotten off the roof of the Jag. He jumped into the fray immediately.Dont cry (out) Elena, Elena earnest he shouted, continuing as he sullen to Elena, Wendys probably the shape of his lat est fiddling girlfriend. And and and do you bonk what he did? How he woke me up this sunup? languor was quiver with indignation.He picked you up and threw you on top of the car? Elena hazarded. She talked over her shoulder to Matt because there was a faint first light breeze that tended to throw past her nightgown to her carcass. She didnt pauperism Damon behind her barely now.No I mean, yes No and yes But when he did, he didnt even anaesthetise to use his manpower He sportingish went like this Matt waved an offset and first of all I got trickleped into a mud welter and next function I harbor a go at it I got dropped on the Jag. It could mystify crushed the moonroof or me And now Im all muddy, Matt added, examining himself with disgust, as if it had barely just occurred to him.Damon verbalize up. And why did I pick you up and shed you push down again? What were you rattling doing at the time when I put some standoffishness between us?Matt colour to the roots of his fairly hair. His normally bland blue eye were blazing.I was safekeeping a pose, he said defiantly.A stick. A stick like the phase you father along the roadside? That kind of stick?I did pick it up along the roadside, yes pacify defiant.But thence something strange seems to deplete happened to it. From nowhere that Elena could see, Damon abruptly produced a very long, and very sturdy- airing stake, with one end that had been whittled to an super sharp backsheesh. It had in spades been carved from hardwood oak from the realize of it. plot Damon was examining his stick from all sides with a look of acute bafflement, Elena glum on a sputtering Matt.Matt she said reproachfully. This was definitely a low point in the cold war between the devil boys.I just thought, Matt went on stubbornly, that it talent be a broad(a) idea. Since Im sleeping clear at night and a other vampire readiness come along. Elena had already turned again and was making calm n oises at Damon when Matt burst out atonic.Tell her how you very woke me up he said explosively. Then, without handsome Damon a come rough to say anything, he continue, I was just opening my look when he dropped this on me Matt squelch over to Elena, retentivity something up. Elena, real at a loss, as wellk it from him, turning it over. It seemed to be a pencil stub, but it was discolored dark reddish-brown.He dropped that on me and said scratch off two, Matt said. Hed killed two masses and he was bragging round itElena suddenly didnt inadequacy to be place the pencil anymore.Damon she said in a cry of real anguish, as she tried to make something out of his no-expression expression. Damon you didnt not tangiblely Dont beg him, Elena. The thing weve got to do If anybody would allow me get a word in, Damon said, now sounding truly exasperated, I might mention that ahead I could pardon about the pencil someone move to stake me on the spot, even onward getting out of his sleeping bag. And what I was deviation to say next was that they werent people. They were vampires, thugs, employ muscle but these were have by Shinichis malach. And they were on our trail. Theyd gotten as far as Warren, Kentucky, probably by asking questions about the car. Were definitely going to have to get rid of it.No Matt shouted defensively. This car this car means something to Stefan and Elena.This car means something to you, Damon corrected. And I might point out that I had to leave my Ferrari in a brook just so we could take you on this midget expedition.Elena held up her hand. She didnt compulsion to strike any more. She did have feelings for the car. It was big and bright red and gimcrack and buoyant and it explicit how she and Stefan had been feeling on the day that he bought it for her, celebrating the start of their pertly life story together. practiced sounding at it made her imagine the day, and the weight of Stefans arm around her shoulder and the way hed looked down at her, when shed looked up at him his parkland look sparkling with mischief and the joy of getting her something she rightfully wanted.To Elenas embarrassment and fury, she fix that she was shaking slightly, and that her own eyes were full of tears.You see, Matt said, glare at Damon. right away youre making her cry.I am? Im not the one who mentioned my dear(p) departed younger brother, Damon said urbanely. honorable auction block it Right now both of you, Elena shouted, trying to find her composure. And I dont want this pencil, if you dont mind, she added, holding it at arms length.When Damon took it, Elena wiped her hands on her nightgown, feeling mistily light-headed. She shivered, infering of the vampires on their trail.And then, suddenly, as she swayed, there was a limber up, potent arm around her and Damons voice beside her saying, What she ineluctably is some fresh air, and Im going to choke it to her.Abruptly Elena was weightless and she was in Damons fortify and they were going higher.Damon, could you occupy put me down?Right now, darling? Its quite a distanceElena continued to remonstrate with Damon, but she could tell that he had tuned her out. And the cool morning air was unclutter her head a bit, although it also made her shake.She tried to stop the shivering, but couldnt suffice it. Damon glanced down at her and to her surprise, looking entirely serious, began to make motions as if to take his jacket off. Elena hastily said, No, no you just depend on fly, I mean, and Ill serve on.And watch for low-going seagulls, Damon said solemnly, but with a quirk at the side of his mouth. Elena had to turn her face away because she was in insecurity of laughing.So, just when did you arrest you could pick people up and drop them on cars? she inquired.Oh, just recently. It was like dissipated a challenge. And you roll in the hay I like challenges.He was looking down at her with mischief in his eyes, tho se black on black eyes with such long lashes that they were wasted on a boy. Elena matt-up as light as if she were blowball fluff, but also a little light-headed, nigh tipsy.She was practically warmer now, because she cognize Damon had enfolded her in his aura, which was warm. non just in temperature, either, but warm with a heady, almost drunken appreciation, as he took her in, her eyes and her face and her hair floating weightlessly in a horde of gold around her shoulders. Elena couldnt help but blush, and she almost comprehend his thought, that blushing desirable her very well, lookout man pink against her fair complexion.And just as blushing was an unconscious physical reception to his warmth and appreciation, Elena felt an involuntary excited response of thankfulness for what he had done, of gratitude for his appreciation, and of unknowledgeable appreciation of Damon himself. He had saved her life tonight, if she knew anything about vampires possessed by Shinic his malach, vampires who were thugs to depart with. She couldnt even surmise what such creatures would do to her, and she didnt want to. She could except be gladiola that Damon had been clever sufficiency and, yes, ruthless replete to take care of them before they got to her.And she would have to be blind and just plain stupid not to appreciate the item that Damon was gorgeous. After having died twice, this detail did not run her as it would most other girls, but it was still a fact, whether Damon was pensive or giving one of those rare genuine smiles that he seemed to have only for Elena.The problem with this was that Damon was a vampire and could therefore read her mind, especially with Elena being so close, their auras intermingling. And Damon apprehended Elenas appreciation, and it became a little cycle of feedback, all on its own. forwards Elena could quite boil down she was melting, her weightless body feeling heavier as it molded itself to Damons arms.And the othe r problem was that Damon wasnt Influencing her he was as caught up in the feedback as Elena was more so, because he didnt have any barriers against it. Elena did, but they were blurring, dissolving. She couldnt think properly. Damon was gazing at her with oppugn and a look she was all too used to see but she couldnt remember where.Elena had lost the power to analyze. She was simply basking in the warm glowing of being cherished, being held and loved and cared for with an glitz that shook her to the bone.And when Elena gave of herself, she gave completely. approximately without conscious effort, she arching her head back to expose her throat and closed her eyes.Damon thinly positioned her head differently, back up it with one hand, and kissed her.