Deliver Me From Darkness by Tes Hilaire

Author:Tes Hilaire [Hilaire, Tes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Romance / Paranormal
ISBN: 9781402264344
Google: Q-s4CWJySnIC
Amazon: 1402264348
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2012-02-01T23:00:00+00:00

Karissa blinked, trying to escape the intensity of Roland’s gaze. Mate. He thought she was his mate?

Yes, Karissa, and so do you.

Ignoring the crazy voice in her head—didn’t even want to acknowledge the pulsing thrill running through her nerves—she went into full cross-examination mode.

“Mate.” She bit out the word, jerking her hand from his grasp. She couldn’t touch him. Not without losing her mind. Okay, so maybe it was a tempting kind of loss. A forget-the-world take-me-I’m-yours kind of crazy. But it was a loss of control nonetheless. Karissa didn’t like feeling out of control. Too much of her life was out of control.

“As in you, me,” she waved her hand between them, “together forever. As in more of this Neanderthal, beat one’s chest, kind of claiming crap all you Paladin seem to buy into?”

He blinked, his eyes shuttering. “You need not worry. It was a fantasy, nothing more.”

She watched in silence as he stood up, shrugging off his black T-shirt, and became thoroughly distracted by the rippling muscles. God he was gorgeous.

And mine.

Stop that, Karissa. He’s not yours any more than you’re his.

He could be, though.

Karissa gave a quick shake of her head, trying to eradicate the illogical, horny slut that seemed to have taken up permanent residence in her psyche. Calm. Logical. That’s who she was. Not a dog.

Dog. Heat. Crap, what was it Logan and his father had said about her being in heat?

“As you know, I am not a full Paladin any longer.”

What? Not a Paladin? Karissa lifted her gaze. Roland was leaning over the sink, carefully dabbing the blood off a cut on his forearm that had already healed. Oh, right. Honestly, she’d momentarily forgotten about the whole vampire thing. Just like she seemed to keep on forgetting how dangerous he could be.

But not to me.

Wow. That voice was really beginning to insert itself in her unconscious. Because even as she tried to argue, insert some of her well-ingrained logic that said “Keep sharp, be wary,” she realized she did trust him. She had all along.

Which, ironically, made her more uneasy.

None of this made sense.

She cleared her throat, shifting on her black porcelain perch. Who bought a black toilet anyway? A vampire, that’s who. “I wasn’t worried.”

In the mirror, his eyebrow lifted mockingly. And she knew, knew, that he could see right through her.

A rush of heat hit her cheeks. “What the heck is this marking crap anyhow?”

Roland dipped the cloth, squeezed it, then went to work on the trio of scratches on his shoulder. Out of all the wounds, this was the only one that still hadn’t closed completely. He repeated the action two more times before he finally answered.

“A mark is an invisible sign that only another Paladin can see. The spell, if you will, not only tells the others that the female is spoken for, but it creates a virtual tether between both the male Paladin who made the mark and the female bearing it.”

“A tether?”

He glanced over his shoulder at her. “It allows him to find her no matter where she is.

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