Bad Blood by Lauren Dane

Author:Lauren Dane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2023-07-11T20:07:32+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Darius found himself on the patio just outside her bedroom and he wasn’t sure why and that was total bullshit. He knew why. Because he couldn’t be anywhere else. Because she called to him and he didn’t want to ignore it anymore.

The sheer curtain panels wafted in the breeze through the open doors. He caught her scent easily and then she was there, her dark hair free in a fall of lush curls. The curve of her lips as she opened the screen and beckoned him inside was a smile just for him.

Face bare of makeup she looked even younger than usual as she indicated he sit wherever.

“Lorraine is long asleep,” Genevieve told him. “But she made some tea for me to drink and brought two glasses so she must have had a feeling about an early morning visitor.”

“I knew I liked her,” he murmured before turning his attention to Genevieve again. There were lit candles all through the space bathing her in tawny liquid gold as she padded around, feet bare. The deep blue silk pajamas she wore fluttered around her, caressing and accentuating the lines of the body beneath the fabric.

His palms tingled as he thought about sliding his hands over her curves while his lips felt the phantom of her skin right at the juncture of her jaw and her throat.

She chose the chair across from his and tucked her feet up under herself before smiling over at him, leaning on her elbow to get a little closer. “What brings you to my lair tonight?” she asked, delight in her eyes.

Truth was, Darius could make up a dozen reasons to be there without admitting his craving for this witch. He’d been many, many things over the many years he’d been in existence, but never had he been a liar. And if he didn’t lie to others, why do it to himself?

He was there because she was all he thought about every moment he wasn’t doing something else. And even then. Even then the song of her power, of her magic and energy and yes, her gorgeous fucking face, haunted him in the background.

“Lair?” He leaned closer to her, placing his elbows on his knees. “That sounds dangerous.”

“Or adventurous.” She fluttered her lashes and a lightness only she seemed to bring bubbled through his belly and chest.

It had been centuries since he’d been teased this way. He wanted more.

“I came because you were here, and I wanted to see you.”

“Oh. Well.” Her pleased smile stole his breath a beat or two. “I’m glad you did. I was thinking about you and there you were. As if I’d conjured you,” she said. “Normally I might say to a human or someone like Rowan, tell me about yourself. But I find that question harder and harder to answer the older I get. I imagine for you it might be the same. I like to ask more specific questions. Or you can tell me random facts. I’d like that too.”

“You first.

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