Drake Sisters 01 - Magic in the Wind

Sarah prompted. “This is Damon Wilder, a friend of mine. Have you three met yet?"
    Damon was simply astonished. Pete was going to go visit his very ill friend and Mr. Granger was going to see a cardiologist, all at Sarah's suggestion. He looked closer at the older man. He couldn't see that Granger looked sick. What had Sarah seen that he hadn't? There was no doubt in his mind that the cardiologist was going to find something wrong with Mr. Granger's heart.
    Sarah asked the three of them to keep an eye out for strangers with bruises on their face or jaw and the trio agreed before hurrying away.
    "How do you do that?" Damon asked, intrigued. She was doing something, knew things she shouldn't know.
    "Do what?" Sarah asked. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
    Damon studied her face there on the street with the sunlight shining down on them. He couldn't stop looking at her, couldn't stop wanting her. Couldn't believe she was real. "You see something beyond the human eye, Sarah, something science can't explain. I believe in science, yet I can't find an explanation for what you do."
    Damon was looking at her with so much hunger, so much stark desire in his expression, Sarah's heart melted on the spot and her body went up in flames. "It's a Drake legacy. A gift.”

    Wherever she had been going was gone out of her head. She couldn't think of anything but Damon and the need on his face, the hunger in his eyes. Her fingers tangled in the front of his shirt, right outside the gift shop in plain sight of the interested townspeople.
    "The Drake gate prophecy forgot to mention the intensity of the physical attraction," she murmured.
    A man could drown in her eyes, be lost forever. His hands tightened possessively, brought her closer to him, right up against his body. Every cell reacted instantly. Whips of lightning danced in his bloodstream while tongues of fire licked his skin, at the simple touch of her fully clothed body. What was going to happen when she was naked, completely bare beneath him? "I might not survive," he whispered.
    "Would we care?" Sarah asked. She couldn't look away from him, couldn't stop staring into his eyes. She wanted him.
    Ached for him. Wanted to be alone with him. It didn't matter where, just that they were alone.
    "You can't look at me like that," Damon said. "I'm going up in flames and I'm too damned old to be acting like a teenager."
    "No, you're not," Sarah denied. "By all means, I don't mind at all." She half-turned toward the street, still in his arms. "I think Inez is falling out of her window. Poor thing, she's bound to lose her eyesight if she keeps this up. I should have suggested she get a new pair of glasses. I'll let Abigail suggest it. You have to be careful with Inez because she's so sensitive."
    It was the way Sarah said it, so absolutely sincere, that tugged at his heartstrings. "I never could get along with people.
    Ever. Not even in college. Everyone always annoyed me. I preferred books and my lab to talking with a human being,"
    he admitted, wanting her to understand the difference she'd made. He was actually beginning to care about Inez and that was plain damned scary. He was finding the townspeople interesting after seeing them through her eyes.
    "Let's go back to my house," he suggested. "Didn't you say there could be bugs in that security system you installed?"
    "I'm certain I need to check it over," Sarah agreed, "but I do have to make this one stop first. I promised Inez."

Chapter 8

    THE SMALL GIFT shop was cheerful and bright. Celtic music played softly. New Age books and crystals of all colors occupied one side of the store while fairies and dragons and mythical creatures reigned supreme on the other. Damon had been prepared for clutter after the comments on the shop owner's lack of recycling education, but the store was spotless.
    "I think Donna knows her recycling stuff," Damon whispered against Sarah's ear. "She probably brushed up after she saw Inez peering at her through the store window with her lips pursed and her hands on her hips." His teeth nibbled for just a moment, sending a tremor through her. "Let's get out of here while we have the chance."
    Sarah shook her head. "I have an especially strong feeling we should talk with Donna today." She was frowning slightly, a puzzled expression on her face.
    Damon felt something twist and settle around his heart.
    Knowledge blossomed. Belief. He was a man of logic and books, yet he knew Sarah was different. He