Forever Kisses Volume 1 by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight [Knight, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009949-03228
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Cade cursed silently to himself. He didn’t like the odds, but he also didn’t have much choice. He couldn’t leave her there with them. Yet a frontal assault would be suicide.

Just as he was trying to come up with a plan, a familiar figure stepped out of the house. Even swathed in desert robes, those bull shoulders were instantly recognizable.

Ridgemont. The bastard always did have a taste for theatrics.

The ancient dragged Val by one wrist. A blanket draped her slim body like a toga, but from the flash of her bare legs as she moved, Cade could tell she was naked underneath it. She looked furious but otherwise unhurt.

Cade’s sense of relief was so overwhelming he had to close his eyes for an instant. She’s alive! God, he hadn’t realized how terrified he really was until he saw her. He wanted to hold her so badly, he ached.

He opened his eyes just in time to see a second man shoulder through the door, dressed in white from head to toe. If Ridgemont resembled a desert sheik, that one could have been an escapee from a ninja anime, except for the war axe and shield he carried. Hirsch, Cade realized, recognizing the axe.

The German wore a white fabric mask that completely covered his face, except for a pair of black goggles designed to protect his eyes from the sun.

Ridgemont’s mental voice hit Cade’s mind like a sucker punch. “I thought I sensed you out here, gunslinger. We’re going for a ride. Care to follow?”

Shit. What’s he got in mind now? Ridgemont rarely went out in the sunlight; at his great age, he was more vulnerable to it than Cade or Hirsch. “Where, exactly, are we going?”

“I’m told there’s a very pleasant meadow up the road, screened nicely by trees. Good spot for a duel.”

“We wouldn’t want to be interrupted by any inconvenient cops,” Cade agreed.

“I think that’s unlikely in any case,” Ridgemont told him. “I understand every law enforcement officer in ten miles is still cleaning up the mess at your house.”

“Just for curiosity’s sake, will I be fighting both of you?”

“Actually, no,” the ancient said. “I plan to sit this one out. I’m going to let you two decide who gets to keep her.”

Incredulous, Cade attempted a deeper scan. To his amazement, Ridgemont allowed it. What’s more, his sire meant what he said. He intended for Cade and Hirsch to duel, and he did not plan to interfere even if Cade won. He meant to hand Val over to the victor one way or another. And once she’d been Changed, he’d duel the winner.

“It’ll be me, you bastard,” Cade snarled mentally.

“I’ll be highly disappointed if it isn’t. Come along, gunslinger.”

Rising from his nest of weeds, Cade sprinted for his borrowed car as Val and the vampires got into the limo. He glanced back in time to see the car roll to a halt in the driveway. Wary of a double-cross, he stopped to watch.

Ridgemont leaned out the window. With Cade’s vampire hearing, it was easy to pick up the conversation.

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