Mia's Return by Teal Ceagh

Author:Teal Ceagh
Language: eng
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Published: 2012-07-01T11:53:50+00:00

Chapter Four

Mia felt Alexander’s hands on her, trying to comfort her but she flinched and moved away.

“You didn’t tell her, did you?” the other man said.

“No,” Alex admitted.

“Fucking idiot,” the man said. “Here, take this.” Other hands on her shoulders, comforting. “Take a deep breath,” he said. “You’re hyperventilating. You’re going to pass out if you don’t slow down. Breathe slowly.” Then, “She’s human, nothing fancy?”

“Yes.”

“Jesus,” the man muttered. “I’m going to carry you over to the bench, okay?” he said to her.

She nodded and felt arms under her legs and behind her back. She was carried to the bench a few paces from the smoking outline of the demon.

“I’m Wyatt,” the man said.

“Mia,” she gasped. She would never get all her name out in one breath.

Wyatt didn’t just put her on the bench. He sat on it and put her on his lap.

She went back to breathing deeply. Slowly, the sickness ebbed.

“Feeling better?” Wyatt asked.

She nodded. “What’s a hunter?” she croaked.

“You know nothing about this stuff?”

“What stuff?”

“Oh, wow,” he breathed. He had black eyes, like hers but he was not Latino. He had white skin and laugh lines around his eyes but it looked like it had been a long time 55

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since he had laughed. He held his mouth in a straight line and there was a furrow between his brows, like he was more used to anger than laughter now.

Alexander settled on the bench next to them, holding the shotgun. He looked comfortable holding it. “There’s no one else around,” he said. “I did a full circuit.”

“He’d know,” Wyatt said, with a jerk of his head in Alexander’s direction. “They have superior animal instincts.”

She winced.

“You have to forgive him for not telling you,” Wyatt added. “They’re not allowed to. Right?” he said, looking at Alexander.

“Right,” Alex said heavily.

“But now we have to figure out why the demon wanted you,” Wyatt finished.

“Me?” Mia said, jumping.

“Shhh,” Wyatt soothed. “The demon was trying to get past your friend to get to you. That’s why your friend kept pushing you behind him.”

“Alexander. My friend is Alexander.”

“Right,” Wyatt said. He glanced at Alexander. “Whatever.”

Mia recalled the moments again. Alex’d handed her the one reliable weapon that would slow the creature down, then put her behind him again and pulled out a knife from his sleeve somehow.

“You always carry a knife up your sleeve, Alexander?” she asked.

“Always,” he said. He hesitated.

“What he wants to tell you and won’t, coz he’s so practiced at not telling you, is that there’s a war on,” Wyatt said.

Alexander expelled a sharp breath.

“There’s fucking demons after her,” Wyatt snapped at him. “You wanna protect her into her grave?”

“A war? Between whom?” Mia asked, bewildered.

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“Oy vey,” Wyatt muttered.

“You can’t tell her everything,” Alexander protested.

“Why not?” Wyatt demanded. “She’s a member of the club now.”

“Because a demon wants her? Perhaps he just wanted her because she was with me.

We don’t know!”

“You afraid she’ll hate you if she finds it all out, vampire?”

Alexander fell silent and Mia knew that Wyatt had touched a raw nerve in him, one she didn’t know he had.

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