Nicholas POV
He didn't tell her to hold on.
She figured it out herself.
The second the bike pulled onto the main road and the speed hit her, her arms came around his waist and locked. Both hands fisting the front of his jacket. Her face pressing into his back.
He felt it through the leather.
Felt her.
Kael went very still in his chest.
Not the miserable stillness of the last two days. Something else. Something that felt almost like satisfaction. Like a thing that had been waiting a long time had finally gotten exactly what it wanted.
Nicholas kept his eyes on the road.
Went faster.
Her grip tightened immediately.
He almost smiled.
The estate disappeared behind them quickly.
One moment the iron gates. The next....open road. The territory spreading out around them in the dark, wide and endless and nothing like the walls she had been living inside for weeks.
He felt her shift behind him.
