Between the Marshal & the Vampire by Tricia Owens

Author:Tricia Owens [Owens, Tricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Goodreads: 33516788
Published: 2017-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

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After that, things changed.

It wasn't a change that centered around Mariel. She observed it happening between her two male companions. The tension in the air whenever they passed by each other or even when they exchanged words was enough to make her nervous. She knew why it was happening. Vellum had crossed a line for Clay when he had tasted the Marshal's release.

But what to do about it?

Clay looked like he was back to thinking up ways for him and Mariel to escape. While escape wasn't a bad thing, she thought it was dangerous to attempt. Vellum would be forced to capture them and worse, he'd have to change the way he handled them, treating them not as companions but as a resistant food source. Mariel didn't like imagining that scenario. Not one bit.

So she kept an eye on Clay and interrupted him when he tried to goad the vampire. If Vellum knew the motive behind Clay's change of attitude and sudden animosity, he didn't show it. If anything, he acted as though he didn't notice it at all. But Mariel knew he was aware of it. Once, she had caught him looking after the Marshal after the other male had made a point of walking a wide circle around Vellum to reach his horse. Vellum was curious for the moment, but how far would he need to be pushed to become irritated with the Marshal's behavior?

That sunrise, after Vellum closed his box lid over himself beneath Clay's baleful eye, Mariel decided to confront Clay.

"What's gotten into you?" she demanded.

The two of them sat beneath a rocky overhang that was part of a small outcropping they'd been fortunate to find in an area otherwise as flat as hotcakes. The sky was orange and rapidly brightening with a new day.

"I don't know what you're talking about," he muttered and tipped his head to rest it against the rock at their backs. He closed his eyes and rested his arms on his drawn-up knees. "You should get some sleep, Mariel."

"Don't tell me to sleep, Clay. Not while you're stirring up trouble for all three of us with your pig-headed behavior!"

That prompted him to crack open a golden eye. "Pig-headed? Now, that's mighty harsh."

"And appropriate. Along with cowardly."

Both eyes snapped open to glare at her. "Be careful what you say, Mariel. You don't accuse a man of being a coward. Not lightly."

But she wasn't intimidated by him. "My accusation wasn't made lightly. You're afraid and lashing out at Vellum. Why? Because he touched you? He did so before, when he drank from you."

"He didn't do then what he did—" Clay broke off, a flush streaking across his cheeks. "Taking a bite out of my neck is one thing. But what he did when all three of us were together was wrong. He went too far."

"How so?"

"Because he made it intimate. Between me and him." Clay muttered the last and turned his face away, though Mariel could still see his blush deepening. "He makes me feel things I don't want to feel with that bite of his.

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