Page 7 of Enter the Lair

“My family tracked me down.Rescued me.”

“Were they prosecuted?”

“Not by your justice system, but they were punished.”

Her eyebrows arched.“I’m not sure I like the sound of that.Maybe I should...”

“It was a long time ago.Please let it go.I have,” he said.

“Have you?Because it doesn’t feel like it.”

Devon put his lips close to hers as he pulled her tight against his growing erection.“What exactly does it feel like Sarah?”He felt her body’s reaction immediately.She became pliant under his hands.Snuggling closer to his warmth, her chin nuzzling his.He thought it an unusual action until he smelled the scent of her arousal.It was a potent aphrodisiac.He wanted her.His gaze fell on her wet uniform laying on the floor, drawn to the yellow embroidered letters on her name patch.

She kissed his neck.His body was on fire.His cat pushing him to take its mate.He wanted her more with every breath, but her name was a death sentence for his family.“Sarah,” he said gently.“What happened to Racheal?”

Her eyes were closed.Pain etched clearly on her face.“She’s gone.”

She didn’t want to think about Racheal or what happened to her.Sarah just wanted to focus on the hard, warm body pressed up against her.She welcomed the feelings he resurrected in her.That the world was a safe place and people survived impossible situations.She kissed his neck more intensely.His earthy scent making her feel alive.A fiery warmth in a once cold body.

Devon rubbed her back.“Tell me what happened to her.”

She withdrew.“Do we have to talk about this now?”

He smiled.“I have the feeling if we don’t you may distract me so badly; I will forget to ask later.”

She was shocked by her own candor.“And that’s bad, why?”Who was this hussy and why was she showing up now?

Devon chuckled and kissed her nose.“Please tell me,” he said in his most contrite voice.

Sarah sighed.“I told you how I met Racheal.After I stood up for her that day.She stayed close to me at lunchtime and after school until I was picked up.At first, I found her a little irritating.Gerry didn’t like her at all, but after a while, her kind heart and brilliance won him over.We both realized early on that she was going to do great things.”

“What did she study?”

“Biology.Chemistry.Everything in between.When we were trying to make a flashlight out of a potato, she was writing magazine articles on DNA sequencing and gene splicing.”

“She sounds brilliant.”

“She was,” Sarah whispered.

“Was?”

“She disappeared four years ago.”

“How did it happen?”

“We were living together.She texted me saying she would be late for dinner.She already had a job at N-Zime Labs, but she was heading to an interview with a competitor.”

“Was N-Zime questioned in her disappearance?”

“Extensively.They didn’t know about the interview and were confident they could have beaten whatever she was offered.They were devastated by her disappearance.A year later the company was sold.”

Devon rubbed her back.“She never texted anything after that?”

Sarah hesitated.Only Gerry knew about the other message.“There was one more, but I haven’t been able to make sense of it yet.”

“What did it say?”

“I asked her why she was considering leaving N-Zime.She sent me a copy of a message she was sent that day.”