Gabriel's Mate: Scanguards Vampires by Tina Folsom

Author:Tina Folsom
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781456435295
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-12-13T07:00:00+00:00

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Half an hour later, she and Thomas squeezed through a throng of

people to get into the Q Bar in the heart of the Castro. He used his body

to drag her behind him through the crowd which miraculously parted to

let them through. The bouncer barely looked at them before he waved

them in.

Maya voiced her suspicion. “Did you use mind control on –”

He cut her off. “Don’t use those words. Call it skill while we’re in

public.”

She nodded, doubting anybody had heard her in the crowded bar

where the music blared and everybody tried to shout over each other.

“Did you use your skill?” she asked instead.

She knew she didn’t have to shout. Thomas could hear her just fine,

as she could him. In fact, she noticed how she was able to tune in and

out of conversations at will.

“I didn’t have to. The bouncer knows me. I don’t waste my skill

where it’s not needed. It takes energy. If you use it to excess it exhausts

you. Only use it when it’s necessary. And never on one of our kind.”

Maya nodded. “Yvette told me already.”

“Good. Then you’re forewarned. Very few of us can avoid a battle

and pull their skill back once we are attacked.”

Curiosity overtook her. “Can you?”

Thomas gave her a serious look. “Too personal a question. I’ll

pass.”

“Sorry.” She turned toward the bar, not wanting to see his

reprimanding look.

With a hand on his shoulder he turned her back to him. “There are

things each of us keeps close to his heart – you will understand one day.

We all have things we won’t talk about. Just like you do.”

Maya’s breath hitched. What did he know about her? For a few

moments she felt frozen in time.

“Maya, I can’t read your mind, so relax. I have no interest in

knowing what you don’t want anybody to know. Someone else might

though.” He winked and grinned. “Now let’s start with our little lesson.

Otherwise I might be accused of just using you as an excuse to go out.”

The tenseness in Maya’s shoulders eased and she smiled back at

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him. “You mean you weren’t?”

“If you tell Gabriel that I was, I swear, I’ll tell him you forced me.”

“You’re a nice guy, you know that, Thomas?”

He tossed a look to his right, then his left. “Don’t say that so loud,

woman. If that news spreads, I’ll never get another date around here.”

He frowned in mock-anger. “Nice guys don’t get laid.”

“Okay, then, teach me.” Maya was curious now. If she had to

embrace her new life she would make the most out of it. And if this

meant she got some superpower, then even better.

“Good. Here’s what you do. See that man nursing his drink in the

corner. He’s shy. I want you to make him get up and walk up to that

dark haired hunk at the bar, and put his hand on his ass.”

Maya looked at the man Thomas was referring to. He sat in the

corner, his lids lowered as if he was ashamed to be here. Every so often

he led his beer glass to his lips and sipped. She felt sorry for him.

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