A Dangerous Man by Raven Stone

Author:Raven Stone [Raven Stone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Firelight Tales Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 44

Nadia – Chicago

The Sword of Gabriel. The phrase I’d heard the first night I’d met Degarr.

King Gabriel. The name from last night.

Gabriel. The name Degarr had said tonight, his voice rough and soft by turns, full of love.

“What?” Degarr asked. “You’re staring.”

“Does that thing keep out sound?” I asked, indicating the screen separating us from Gordon. Degarr had pressed a button and raised it, moments after the other vampire had settled into the driver’s seat.

“Yes,” he replied.

“Your boyfriend’s a fucking king?” The words almost exploded out of me, since I’d been holding them in for so long.

His lips twitched. “Yes.”

“I thought you told her everything,” Jamie said.

“I told her the most important things,” Degarr replied.

The ginger’s brow knotted.

“How is the fact that Gabriel’s a king somehow unimportant?” he asked.

He had a point, but frankly I had a question of my own.

“What’s he king of?” I asked.

The two men stared at me.

“He’s the king of all vampires in the eastern half of the United States,” Degarr answered.

Jamie made a noise.

“What?”

“You’re burying the lead again,” Jamie said. “He’s one of the most powerful vampire kings in the world.”

Degarr looked a bit smug about that, for some reason.

“Okay,” I said. “What’s this about, then?” I gestured to the SUV we were sitting in. “Is this his way of giving you flowers or something?”

Jamie laughed.

“He’s not courting me,” Degarr said. “He’s worried. This is his way of feeling better.”

“What’s he worried about?”

“That I’ll disappear.”

“Again,” Jamie said flatly. “He’s worried you’ll disappear again.”

My mind flashed back to the first night I’d met the ginger.

“Just like you,” I said. “You’re worried too. Why? What happened?”

A guilty look came over Degarr’s face.

“He disappeared for a couple of nights.” Jamie crossed his arms. “Recently.”

Recently?

Houston wasn’t that long ago, and I knew he’d been chained up in that warehouse. Is that what they were talking about?

“Houston?” I asked.

Both men shot me startled looks.

“How do you know about Houston?” Degarr asked.

It was my turn to look smug.

“I do this for a living, baby. I got to the warehouse just as you were leaving Houston,” I said.

“How do you know when I left?” Degarr’s eyes narrowed.

Shit.

“That’s proprietary,” I said.

Degarr shook his head slowly. “If I share my secrets with you, then you share your secrets with me.”

Fuck.

He was right, though. If I wanted more, that meant giving more. I knew that.

I swallowed.

“You can’t tell anyone,” I said, my voice sounding strange in my ears.

It could mean my life.

But I held that part back. He didn’t need to know that.

Degarr shot a glance at Jamie, and the ginger nodded.

“We won’t.”

I exhaled shakily, and held my arms. “I call it the Pulse. Once I know enough about a mark – whether it’s an object or a person – then something inside of me pulses when I get close to it. It’s how I make my living, and it’s how I found you.”

God, the look Degarr was giving me.

Like I was something amazing, and something special too. It warmed me, even as fear spilled into me.

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