Silence fell over for a few minutes.. He held my hand and drove with the other while I simple felt like there wasn't anything else in the world I needed in that moment. "What happened to you?" I decided to ask, even though I knew it was me that roamed around the woods for hours the previous night. Still, I was unconscious most of the time, so I barely knew what really happened. We were already from the back side of the lake house, so he was stopping the car when I felt him look at me. I kept thinking if the lake house was still invisible to others, if that property was still the safest we could be, but near Christian, it didn't really matter. I looked back at him. "To me? Baby, do you even know how much you scared me? I lost my damn mind." I rubbed my thumb over his hand with the way our fingers were intertwined, trying to make out a smile. "I'm okay. I healed." When he brought my hand up to his lips, leaving that slow butterfly kiss over my palm, my heart melted. "Are you?" To that he nodded his head and flashed me a dazzling grin that obviously meant that it was quite hard for someone to really get him hurt.. But still, I knew what those witches were capable of doing. "How did you get out?" "I told the guards I needed some fresh air." I explained, earning an ironic chuckle from him as he looked in front of himself. "You have shitty guards then." I could tell the frustration in his voice, taking the best of him, and from the way his expression went serious, he was quite mad at how easily I managed to get out of the house. "You're not safe in that house, Lana," "I'm safest there. It's you I'm worried about." I tried, but from the way he looked at me, I could tell that he was ready to prove me wrong. "That sounds almost ridiculous. You know I can take them down." "I believe you can. Adam." I had seen Christian fight. He finished them up within seconds.. "But the witches.. They are the very cheaters of the nature. You can't take them down on your own." "I won't." He assured. "Listen to me, I can handle myself. But I need you close to me to keep you safe too." His eyes searched my face and I found myself fascinated by the way he looked at me. He caressed my cheek and I lost myself in his eyes. "Do you even know how much I fought with my own self to give you up last night? I feared I'd never see you again." I leaned closer to him. I could not resist. I won't ever give up on us. You hear me? Never." And in that moment, all I could think about was, I love him. I love him so damn much. Of course I would never give up on us. So it seemed like the two of us craved the se thing. That irresistible closeness that the press of our lips against one another offered.. That kind of loss of senses through that kiss. It made me lightheaded.. So lost on him. So damn desperate for him. It only proved how little we could last without one another. The way he ran his hands down my waist, so effortlessly pulling me up and closer to himself.. I shook with desire. Our lips were locked when I moved on top of him, managing to straddle him.. And reminding myself what happened the last time we fooled around in a car. I stopped the kiss just for a second, just to find him looking back at me as well almost as if both of us thought of the same thing. I couldn't help the smile that stretched my lips, so I looked on the side and glanced at the lights in the lake house. "Who's in there?" "Everyone. I was trying to come up with an excuse to come.. Ans get you out of there. I had to see if you were okay." He ran his hands over my lower back and pulled me closer until I arched it, until I was pressed against him, desperate for his lips once again. He stared down at mine like he had found his very salvation and I could not resist kissing him again.. I found the kind of promise and forget in his kisses that made me trust everything was going to be fine.. As long as we're together. And no matter how damn wrong I was told it was, to be with a vampire, to trust one, all those rules I grew up with.. None of it mattered in that moment. All that mattered was him and I couldn't seem to get enough. I could feel those cravings starting to tale the best of me.. Starting to dominate to the point of swaying my head back when his lips moved over my jaw, to the point of releasing sounds that made him groan and pull me closer, kiss me like it was the last time he was tasting me. And when he stopped, I felt like I was ready to beg for more right then.. For more of his touch, more of his lips, more of him against me, closer to me, till our bodies knew of nothing but one another. He looked on the side almost in frustration, almost like he didn't want to stop those heated kisses either.. "I hate this.. Roads, cars." Those eyes met mine and my breath was taken once again. "I hate hiding you." And what was I supposed to say? In that moment, all I could do was look back into his eyes and lose myself in the depth that darkness held yet made me want to drawn in every look he sent me, every touch he promised me. How could I stop myself? How could I lie to myself that it wasn't real? It was. It was the realest thing I ever felt. And I hated having to hide it as well.