A Pint Light (Vampires & Mages & Werewolves Oh My!) by Rhodes Devon

Author:Rhodes, Devon [Rhodes, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781907280375
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2009-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Val sat in the airport waiting for his flight to L.A. to be announced. From there, it would be five hours to Maui for a much needed vacation. His chest was tight with self-loathing, his body pulsing with unaccustomed power, his mind in a whirl. What the hell had happened earlier? Beyond the shock of his unprecedented attraction for a man, the strong pull, the feeling of rightness when he was pressed up against Raine had stolen his breath away and made him long to keep the man forever.

He swallowed as he closed his eyes in shame. Which made what he had done even more appalling. The pain he had inflicted, the choice he had taken away. Raine wasn’t a nameless, faceless victim to be bled and set aside. He knew that. His own fucking life-mate. And yet somehow Val had ended up treating Raine worse than any stranger.

He suddenly wondered how Raine was feeling right at that moment. He pictured Raine as he had left him, supine on the couch, his neck bruised and bleeding, unconscious. Val winced as he pictured Killian and Brie walking into the room and seeing him that way, rushing to wake him, comfort him. Raine’s pitiless condemnation as he recounted Val’s attack.

He sat up straight as a niggling thought suddenly clarified itself. What if Raine was dying? He had said right before dropping unconscious that he might not survive. Val knew he hadn’t taken enough blood to harm a human, but he’d never dealt with a mage before. What if Brie wasn’t able to help him? Val dropped his head in his hands. The picture in his mind changed to Raine’s face, pale, eyes closed as he fought to hang on to life. This finally drove him to his feet. He was a base coward, he castigated himself as he strode out of the gate area. He couldn’t run away from this. He had to face and take responsibility for his actions.

Val pulled his cell phone from his pocket and turned it back on as he continued walking through the main terminal. Three missed calls, all Killian. He hit voicemail, and his friend’s voice came on, urgency clear in his tone.

“Val, turn your fucking phone on and get your ass back here, pronto. You have no idea what you’ve done. Get back here and make it right. Do not get on the plane. We don’t have time to chase you all the way to fucking Maui.”

He frowned at that last as he emerged from the terminal and crossed to the short-term lot where he had left his car. They didn’t have time? He hit speed-dial and almost dropped the phone as Killian roared in his ear.

“Where the fuck are you? Tell me you’re still on the ground.”

Val’s eyes widened. “I am. I’m coming back, getting in my car now. What’s…uh…how’s Raine?” he stammered, beyond shame to have to ask someone else for information on his own damn mate.

“Thank fuck! Raine needs you here. We’ll be at your house.

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