Night's Caress (The Ancients) by Mary Hughes

Author:Mary Hughes [Hughes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Select Otherworld, vampire, steamy, small town, Humorous, Oktoberfest, FBI, law enforcement, mystery, paranormal, pnr, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Vampires, enemies to lovers, coworkers, co-workers, Fake relationship, opposites attract, redemption
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Seb instructed Brie to wait in their room while he went to hide the bike. His thoughts and emotions were in turmoil, which was a damned poor way to work a case, much less protect her. He reached for his discipline to push away the boiling emotions.

It was harder than it should have been.

Hell, he’d structured his life just so shit like this didn’t happen. So he could do the job, save lives—without all the emotional baggage.

Finding out Cleomenes was a Soul Stealer, nearly dying himself…that was a bad enough hit to his equilibrium. What he hadn’t prepared for was the sheer terror and rage that had burned through him when the greedy old bastard threatened Brie. Seb had used every bit of his preternatural speed to get her out of there, not a fucking care for the masquerade.

Still shuddering with the aftershocks of his terror, it hit him hard that the masquerade, secrecy, detachment—driving forces all his life—didn’t matter for shit now.

Wiped out in an instant by a threat to a single human female.

No. To Brie.

He gripped the handlebars so tightly they nearly broke. Pain. Fear. They’d flooded him, things he hadn’t had to deal with for a long, long time. He had to make sure this never happened again. Stopping a vampire war was important, yes. But somehow, keeping Brie safe had become more important.

He had to figure out a way to capture or kill the Soul Stealer—or die trying.

First things first. Make certain Brie was safe.

Only one way he could think of to do that—tell the Alliance what was going on and let them protect her. They had resources within their own territory Seb couldn’t touch.

Revealing himself to Emerson. Seb shook his head to himself. After duping the male, he’d probably try to kill him.

Normally nothing Seb would worry about, except he remembered the Alliance had made some seriously scary advances in vampire medicine. Hopefully they wouldn’t kill him before he either averted the war, killed Cleomenes, or both. He muscled the bike onto the grass and parked it in the bushes beneath their room.

Lotta hopefullys.

Lotta damned if he dids, damned if he didn’ts, too.

There were only a few ways to win, several ways to lose, and, for the first time, a real possibility of dying the final death.

Heading back into the hotel, he forced himself to make a decision and deal with the consequences.

Call Emerson to pave the way. Shower off the violence. Meet with Emerson and hand over Brie to the Alliance’s advanced protection.

Embed himself in Brie’s memory by giving her an orgasm she’d never forget.

He startled. Where had that idea come from? He mounted the stairs, musing. Hell, back at the beginning, her too-colorful, too-loud self had irritated him.

When had her bright jangling gone from being annoying to making him feel alive?

Don’t question it. Especially don’t ask why she’s so important.

He had a suspicion it would dredge up more messy, painful feelings. He only knew if this was how he was going out, he wanted to taste the joy that was Brie Lark one last time.

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