Charmed by the Werewolf by Sandra Sookoo

Author:Sandra Sookoo [Sookoo, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781499120721
Amazon: 1499120729
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Xavier rolled his eyes and wished for the thousandth time that Sophia would shut up. She’d done nothing but babble ever since they’d set out before the dawn. He couldn’t concentrate. “For the love of the gods, woman, give me two seconds of peace.” His knees ached as he crouched on the cool metal stairs.

“Sooorrry, your royal grouchiness.” She smacked his shoulder. “Remind me again why we’re on this foolish mission?” Her whispered question echoed eerily off the walls of the stairwell. “He’ll kill us both if he finds us.”

“Then it is best to not be found.” He glanced at his watch. Five o’clock in the morning, on the twenty-eighth day of October. They had snuck into the Immortal Court offices and were currently hiding in the stairwell. If it had been up to him, they would have gone directly to Sterling’s office, but Sophia’s skittishness gave him second thoughts. So, he decided to make a brief camp and wait for the night watch to make his rounds.

“Are you crazy?” She poked his back with an insistent forefinger.

“Perhaps, but one of us has to be.” He looked over his shoulder, taking in the lines of worry and fatigue on her face, and then returned his gaze to the floor below. “In order to locate a dragon we need to go to the source. Since Sterling is the only person who holds the relocation records for all paranormal beings in the Elias-Mortal Realm Cooperative, I thought we’d get the information from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.”

Two minutes later the sweep of a flashlight cut through the shadowy open room below followed by the dark form of the security guard. His heavy boots thumped on the marble flooring in time with his labored breathing.

Sophia pressed tighter against his back. Her heat seeped through the black turtleneck he wore and warmed his skin. His groin twitched in response to her nearness, and he wished again they weren’t mired in a near impossible quest. Her quick inhalation of breath alerted him that she wished to speak. “Hush.”

She laid a hand on his shoulder, squeezed gently. “Is he gone?”

Xavier risked a glance through the wrought iron railing. “Yes. How long before the next pass?”

“We should have thirty minutes, give or take.”

“Good. We’ll be in and out well before that time.” He stood. “Let’s do this.” He moved up the remaining steps to Sterling’s office door, the glass windowpane cold to the touch. Xavier tried the doorknob. It turned easily under his hand. “The bastard is so arrogant he probably thought no one would dare break in.”

“Xavier.” Sophia poked him again. “I don’t feel comfortable here in the daylight and I really don’t feel comfortable here now.” She followed him into the office.

“Our criminal activity will be quick and painless.” He squeezed her fingers, hating himself anew for putting her into danger on his behalf. “I’ll look through these files and you take the cabinet over there.” The chrome legs of the chairs winked in the nearly non-existent light from the stairwell.

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