Forbidden Taste: A Vampire Romance (Immortals) by Jennifer Ashley

Author:Jennifer Ashley [Ashley, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941229446
Publisher: JA / AG Publishing
Published: 2017-01-02T18:30:00+00:00

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Mariah kept to her agreement to follow the other three, but it was not easy curbing her impatience. She wanted to finish here, drive Cai to the police station, and then go the hell home. She’d recommend that Cai be handled gently in light of his centuries-long sleep and the fact that he’d be an asset. Old Ones working for the good guys could be a big help.

Even as she had the thoughts, Mariah knew in her heart that she had no intention of taking him in for processing. She was going to let him go. Cai didn’t belong here—not in Los Angeles, not in the new hierarchy of life magic and death magic that had been established after the last war.

Mariah hated to think of him locked away in a sterile interrogation room, kept there for months maybe, or even years, while the paranormal division assessed his threat status.

Cai had just come out of prison, having lost everyone in his life. Mariah couldn’t shove him back in again and walk away.

She’d ask Septimus to find somewhere for him to go, and then she’d tell Cai good-bye. Perhaps one day in the future Mariah would meet him again, to discover what he was doing, see how he fared in the new world.

But she couldn’t be part of his life. It was unrealistic even to hope for the possibility.

Cai put his hand on her shoulder, careful not to brush her skin. “Are you all right?”

Mariah snapped out of her reverie. The auras of the rogue vamps began to press at her, their minds full of rage, violence, and hot hunger.

Tonight Mariah had been bombarded by Cai’s presence, then Tain’s. Now this nest of thirsty, furious vamps ready to rampage started battering at her thoughts. She seriously needed a vacation.

“They’re all over the place,” Mariah said. “Scattered in rooms throughout the building. Groups no bigger than seven.”

“Small forces that can harry,” Cai answered. His hand was still on her shoulder, his warm strength cutting through the vamps’ beating auras. “Making sure that if one group is destroyed, there are plenty to take their place. Vamps have been fighting like this for centuries.”

“They have no imagination,” Septimus said, disdainful.

“They stick with what works,” Tain returned. “Some will live to become Old Ones.”

Septimus’s voice became wry. “Touché, my friend.”

They lapsed into silence. The vamps were well aware of them. The best thing Mariah and her hunters could do was try to funnel them outside where Alejo and the paranormal police would sweep them up.

The darkness in the old building weighed on her. The two vampires and the Immortal could see fine in the blackness—Mariah could not, but she could sense.

Cai’s hand kept her steady, not letting her fall as they ascended to the upper floors. He whispered into her ear to help her avoid obstacles, his breath hot. Fire trickled through Mariah’s body, tightening her breasts and swirling between her legs.

They passed under an overhead vent where air flowed down on them, bringing with it a stomach-churning stench.

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