Circle of Blood Book Five: Lover's Atonement by R. A. Steffan & Jaelynn Woolf

Author:R. A. Steffan & Jaelynn Woolf [Steffan, R. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

CHAN ALLOWED HIMSELF TO be guided into a chair. Already, his burst of energy was flagging, buried under a growing sense of having done something truly heartless to a person he should have been trying to protect, rather than eviscerate.

He frowned at himself. Where the hell had that come from? The woman in question had just admitted to more-or-less killing him and bringing him back as some kind of B-movie monster. He’d drunk someone’s blood, tearing mindlessly into flesh until the crimson liquid overflowed his mouth.

He was a fucking vampire now, and he was supposed to worry about the feelings of the vampire who’d bitten him? Chan shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts, and pressed the heel of his palm into his left eye socket until he saw starbursts.

He was peripherally aware of some sort of silent exchange between the Aussie guy, Mason, and his vampire girlfriend, before Mason said, “I’ll go. She’ll probably be expecting you to come after her.”

The girlfriend—Oksana—nodded. Chan heard the door open and close as Mason left. There was a soft feminine sigh, barely audible, and then Oksana was dragging a second chair around to face his.

“You still have questions,” she said.

Chan let his hand dropped and pinned her with a pointed gaze. “You think?” he asked, laying on the irony with a trowel.

She sighed again and leaned back in the chair, crossing her left leg over her right. The graceful arch of her prosthetic foot tapped against her other shin in a thoughtful rhythm for a long moment.

“There’s more going on right now than is visible on the surface,” she began. “Your presence here… our presence here… it’s not just random happenstance.”

His jaw clenched. “Of course it’s not random fucking happenstance. I’m here on a mission, which has now been blown all to hell thanks to your friend the ice queen. Lives depend on my ability to get intel on the Brotherhood in advance of any government move against them. But I guess that’s been pretty well screwed now, hasn’t it?”

The corner of Oksana’s mouth turned down for an instant before she consciously smoothed the expression. It bugged Chan that someone who looked so unassuming could give off such an aura of power. She was attractive, yes, with striking Afro-Caribbean features and the smooth muscles of an athlete—but nothing about her should have said, ‘I can rip your head off in one second flat and make sure no one ever finds the body afterward.’

Yet, just as Chan had been unable to attack Mason and make a run for it even though he’d had every chance to do so, he now found himself pinned by dark eyes lit from within by the hint of an unearthly violet glow. If anything, the sensation coming from her was far stronger than it had been with Mason, and it made his spine tingle with unease.

She spoke again. “We’ll work to minimize the damage done by the Brotherhood—don’t worry. We still need to find out what Snag is up to and get him and the boy out of there somehow.

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