Bound by Shadow by Anna Windsor

Author:Anna Windsor [Windsor, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780345498533
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008-06-24T07:00:00+00:00

14

Creed lay on the cot in his cell with his hands behind his head, actually grateful to be behind bars—and under a sheet Riana had given him to replace the towel that covered him on the ride back to Manhattan from Van Cortlandt Park. Thank God it had been too early for most people to be out on the street when they got to the brownstone. Steely gray light had just begun to push aside the darkness, and not even a cab had driven past as they hurried inside from Riana’s Jeep. He hadn’t been up to facing strange neighbors wearing nothing but a prissy pink towel. And a little towel, at that.

Most of his muscles still burned and ached, but he couldn’t rest. He couldn’t stop thinking. Mostly, he was stuck on the fact that Asmodai didn’t attack at random. They had to be targeted—and an Asmodai had attacked Andy and him.

What did that mean?

Somebody saw us enter Riana’s house and didn’t like it. Or Andy told somebody about the Sibyls and word got around. But who? And once again, why? What difference do we make in the big picture?

Creed didn’t fully understand what Asmodai were, but one of the monsters had tried to kill him. He had killed it instead. The memory of crushing the thing’s head still played through his mind, and he didn’t know whether to feel sick or elated. Mostly, he just felt exhausted—and Andy was taking forever to get back with his clothes. He knew he could sleep if he could just make himself close his eyes, but with Riana in the lab, that was hard.

Every time he heard the rustle of her clothing, he could swear he smelled that enticing spring rain laced with lavender. It reminded him of everything beautiful, and he had already fused the scent with the image of her beautiful face and blazing green eyes. The smell alone made him want her now.

Everything made him want her.

“Are you sure the Asmodai won’t jump Andy while she’s alone?” he asked, trying not to look at her, but unable to help it. She was sitting about ten feet from him, working on that double-barreled science fiction pistol he had seen before Andy shot Cynda in the ass with an arrow. “If they have pieces of our trash, they have our biological signatures. They can attack us wherever, whenever, right?”

“Asmodai don’t move in the daytime,” Riana murmured without looking up from the telescope lens she was adjusting. “Only at night. The ritual to create them has to be done at night, too, and the demons only last a few hours before they disintegrate. Whoever sent that mob figured a bunch of us would answer the call for help, that we’d be overmatched and lose a lot of fighters.”

She leaned to grab a small screwdriver, giving him a delicious side view of her curves outlined by form-fitting slacks and a white blouse. Her lab coat was missing. As for the lab, it smelled

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