Darkness Taunts by Susan Illene

Author:Susan Illene [Illene, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

We arrived at the airport a little over an hour after dark. I leaned against the side of the car while we waited for the plane to taxi around to us. My senses had already told me who was on board. He’d flown Aniya out.

I looked over at Lucas. “What made you bring her here?”

“She’s your best friend, isn’t she?” he asked.

“Yeah, but I’m guessing you didn’t bring my best friend into a demon danger zone just because of that.”

He gazed off in the distance. “Micah needed a date. I thought you might prefer her over some of his other options.”

My eyes widened. “She agreed to this?”

“When we contacted her several days ago it didn’t take much convincing. She worries about you.”

I looked down at the ground. “She’s going to notice your bite mark on me, isn’t she?”

“Yes,” he said.

“Why’d you do it?”

His hand brushed my hair. “I’m surprised you’re just now asking me that.”

“It’s called denial,” I said, pushing his hand away. “If you don’t acknowledge something, then it can’t exist.”

He sighed. “I didn’t plan to bite you that night.”

The plane had almost reached us. “Then why did you?”

A long silence stretched. I began to think he wouldn’t answer before they finished getting the stairs set up with the plane. When his hands gripped my shoulders and turned me toward him, I almost resisted. The look in his eyes stopped me.

“I think of you as mine, Melena. I have for awhile now. Anytime a man comes near you I have to resist the urge to rip his head off. You have no idea the control it’s taken for me to stay away during your string of dates with human men recently. The only reason they’re still alive is because you didn’t let it go too far with them. When the opportunity to put a claiming mark on you arose, I did it without thinking.” He caressed my cheek. “You can only imagine my surprise when it stuck.”

Okay, his confession was romantic in a creepy kind of way. “I didn’t know what I was accepting.”

“In the deepest part of your mind, you knew and accepted it,” he said. “That’s what counts or it wouldn’t have worked.”

I frowned. “I’m still not happy about it.”

“I know,” he said, taking a step back.

Aniya and one of the guards who’d escorted me when I flew here walked toward us. She’d left her black hair flowing down her back so it fluttered in the breeze. The moonlight made her look almost mystical with its beams causing her olive skin to appear almost translucent. She’d kept her clothes simple with jeans and a sweater, but both were formfitting. I’d always envied Aniya’s much larger chest. No one with a waist that small should have a bust that large. Even the stoic man at her side kept casting glances in her direction.

Despite the confidence in her step, though, her eyes still reflected a certain amount of insecurity. She still had a little more growing to do as a vampire.

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