Eternal Beast: Mark of the Vampire by Wright Laura

Author:Wright, Laura [Wright, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101592595
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-08-06T22:00:00+00:00

12

Gray couldn’t remain still. His mind or his body. He paced in the shadows of the car parked in the lot behind the club and wished for the first time since finding out his true vampire status that he was a Pureblood paven. Then he could flash. Like Dillon had a few moments ago. He could take the two Impures and Uma back to the warehouse so they could connect back with family, then get that hardheaded veana locked in a room and figure out what he’d just heard. Shit—what he’d just seen.

Cursing, he halted in a panel of cool moonlight and raised his hand into the light. He stared at the mark on top, squinted.

There was no mistaking it now. The outline of the jaguar was clearly stamped into the web of burn scars, even down to the rosette pattern on its fur. How hadn’t he seen this lurking beneath all that ravaged skin? Maybe because the mark was the same color as his skin. Maybe because he so rarely looked at his scars—his deformity—at the ever-present reminder of the past? A past that was now called into question by what he’d learned in the Paleo from Samuel.

He ran his thumb over the mark, hissed at the strange sensation that ran through his body. Like feathers one moment and fingernails the next.

Around him, the air seemed to drop ten degrees in temperature, and when he opened his mouth he saw his breath. His pulse kicked up.

He and Dillon—true mates.

The idea was as improbable as it was unfortunate. Yes, he had a thing for Dillon. He wanted Dillon—wanted inside Dillon. But to be bound to her forever? That thought made his blood run as cold as the frigid air he existed within.

Dillon could never be anyone’s true mate. She trusted no one. And if Gray was honest with himself, he wasn’t completely convinced he could trust her either. After what had just happened in the Paleo—how she’d run in the other direction when lives were on the line. Run away instead of toward him, toward his cause.

That could never be the mate for him. For the leader of the Impure Resistance. If he ever wanted to get serious with a female, she would have to be a true partner, like-minded, someone who would allow him to see all of her, even the shit from her past, the scars that never healed.

There was a sudden flash in the center of the parking lot and Gray looked up. Dillon. As beautiful as ever. As impossible to love as ever. His heart stuttered, then stalled. Something was wrong. Her eyes were wide and she was running—balls out—toward him.

“We have to go now!” she shouted.

“What the hell—”

Gray heard the sound of another flash. Then another. Pop. Pop. Instinct gripped him and he leaped onto the hood of the car in front of him. Drawing out his blades, he dropped into fighting stance.

“No!” Dillon screamed. In one lithe movement, she jumped up on the hood

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