Consumed by Fire: An Urban Fantasy Novel (Blood and Magic Book 5) by Danielle Annett

Author:Danielle Annett [Annett, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coffee and Characters
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

12

I tried sending Declan to the Compound with the others while me and Ripped Jeans figured out who wanted me delivered but he wasn’t having it.

Not that I’d expected him to go along with the idea.

Instead, we had a cozy car ride from Sanborn Place with three unconscious shifters in the back seat and our new vampire friend wedged between Declan and I in the front.

Declan drove.

I kept an eye on our new friend while playing with a ball of fire the size of a grapefruit the entire way.

Ripped Jeans proved he wasn’t a complete idiot.

He sulked in silence. Made no threatening gestures and kept his mouth firmly closed and fangs hidden away.

The level of stillness a vampire could achieve gave me the heeby jeebiez. But I was grateful he didn’t decide to force our hand by attacking.

We needed this lead.

Brock met us at the Compound gates with a group of men. They carted out our injured with instruction to have the workers taken straight to Annabeth and Frankie and that Declan wanted an update as soon as the Pack Healers knew anything.

Brock lingered beside the driver’s side door and eyed the Vampire seated between us.

“Anything I should know?”

I shook my head. “Nope. We’re just having a date night.” I smiled.

Declan growled and said something to Brock I couldn’t hear before we pulled away and headed for the drop point.

We had just made it off Pack land when Declan said, “This is not a date.” His tone was gravely and dark shadows played across his face.

“Why not? I like these kinds of dates.” In a twisted sort of way, I did. This I could get behind. It was my normal. I didn’t do fancy dinners or movies. They were pretentious. If I wanted to get to know someone, I wanted to see them in their element behaving how they did every single day.

This was my element. Maybe Declan would see me in all my glory and head for the hills.

I eyed him warily. Probably not.

The reasonable part of me wished he would. Being with me could only end in misery. I was enough of a mess before, even more so now that dear old mom was back in the picture.

Declan was a shifter. My mother would always try to crush the Pack. She wanted humans back on top of the food chain and she didn’t care how she got there or who was hurt in the process.

If he were smart, he would leave me.

I really hoped he wasn’t smart.

The drop point was located in Airway Heights across from the Maverick Gas Station just off the highway.

We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse and parked.

“Make the call.” I nudged him with my elbow and snuffed out my fire.

Ripped Jeans pulled out his phone and dialed.

“I got the girl.”

“No he can’t talk.”

“Because he’s dead, that’s why.”

“Alright. Alright. See you in thirty.”

He hung up the phone and shoved it in his pocket.

“Well?” I said.

In a very human like gesture he shrugged his shoulders. “Well what?”

“What did they say?”

He glowered at me and red tinged his irises.

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