03 To Kill An Angel by M. Leighton

Author:M. Leighton [Leighton, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Bo and I followed Lucius through the woods. Annika was by his side, as he was determined to entertain her with stories of his long, full life as a vampire. To her credit, she managed to look as if she was hanging on his every word.

I wondered about her, about her motives and her true feelings for Bo. Was she just an opportunist, a girl who latched on to the nearest man? That didn’t really make sense because she’d searched furiously and diligently for Bo. Was she trying to make Bo jealous by showing Lucius some attention? That could be it.

As we made our way slowly through the woods, I watched Annika to see if she glanced at Bo for his reaction, but I didn’t see her do it even once. She laughed and responded to Lucius in what appeared to be a very genuine manner. It was then that it occurred to me that Annika might just have fallen under Lucius’s charismatic spell. It was easy to see how that could happen. Lucius was something else after all.

After what seemed like an eternity of walking, Lucius stopped at the foot of a small hill. He swept his arm out with a flourish and announced that we’d arrived.

“You stay here,” Bo said, directing his order to me. “I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

“But you didn’t see what I saw. How will you know where to find him without light?”

“He should answer me if I call out, right?”

“Oh,” I said, feeling foolish. “I didn’t even think of that.”

Bo grinned, brushing a quick kiss across my lips.

“It’s okay. I did.”

With that, he turned and made his way into the darkened interior of the semi-hidden shaft.

Lucius and Annika continued to chatter, but I paid no attention to what they were saying, their flirting the furthest thing from my mind. With every minute that ticked by, I thought of more reasons why I shouldn’t have let Bo go in there alone. In fact, I had all but decided I was going in after him when he finally emerged, brushing cobwebs from his hair and shirt as he walked away from the yawning mouth of the mine.

Relief flooded me and, on its heels, concern that he seemed to be alone.

“No Devon?”

“No Devon.”

Bo turned to Lucius.

“Are there any more mines that you know of in this area?”

“Just one, but I know of two more down in Southmoore.”

Bo sighed.

“Well, let’s start with this one and then we’ll make our way south if we can’t find him here.”

“Do you have any idea how close this particular mine is?” Lucius asked.

“No, but they only just took him, so I figure they couldn’t have gone far,” Bo surmised. “Unless, of course, your vision has yet to happen,” Bo said to me. “Maybe they’re still traveling.”

A hopeless, helpless feeling overwhelmed me at his words. We really were flying almost completely blind. Cade’s abilities wouldn’t do us much good if we had no way of putting them in context or ascertaining some kind of time line.

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