Darkness Bound by Stella Cameron

Author:Stella Cameron
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, fantasy, General, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781455506422
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2012-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

chapter TWENTY-THREE

NILES STOOD in the middle of his sparsely furnished living room, waiting for Sean to explain himself.

His second in command rested his brow on the fireplace mantel and gripped it with both hands. They had been back, with Leigh in their possession, for more than half an hour.

“Are you going to explain how this near-miss happened?” Niles said when he figured he would be waiting a long time for Sean to start this conversation. “You could have cost me Leigh.”

Sean straightened up and jerked his head toward Niles’s bedroom. “Shh. You’ll wake her up. She’s still much too cold. Better off under that pile of quilts.”

“She would have been better off if she hadn’t been snatched.”

Sean stretched out on the couch and turned his head away. “And this could have cost you Leigh. What happened to the team needing her?”

Niles wasn’t going there, not now. “How could that lousy scourge have moved into the area without our knowing?” he said instead, then answered his own question. “They’ve been getting help, that’s how. And we know from where. Regardless of how much he hates the walking dead, Brande knows they can help him get what he wants. He intends to run this island—with a little help from a lot of friends. And he can only hold control over Whidbey so long as we never get bigger in numbers. That’s why he’ll do anything to get Leigh.”

Sean scooted up until he could rest the back of his head on the couch arm. “What if Colin wants her, too? It would be just like his twisted kind to want her only to stop anyone else from having her. A fight between the pack and the scourge could keep all of them busy for a long time.”

Niles wanted to break something. No, smash something, a lot of things. Pulverize them. The old rage was back as strongly as it had been when they lost Gary in the Middle East.

Tonight, with Leigh asleep in his bed, he couldn’t afford to give in to one of the nightmarish episodes that left him sweating and drained.

Jazzy went where Niles went as he paced, pumping his hands in and out of fists. Skillywidden sat beside Leigh on the bed, watching her sleep, and Jazzy wasn’t happy with that arrangement.

Without Skillywidden leading the way, it would have taken longer to find Leigh at the vamp’s house. The cat had to be as fae as Sally was, but it had an easier time slipping in and out of tight spots.

Niles grimaced. He knew that when Leigh woke up and discovered she was in his cabin she would be confused and maybe angry. And he wouldn’t blame her.

He would need one hell of a cover story.

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