Pleasure Unbound -1 by Larissa Ione

Author:Larissa Ione
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Grand Central
Published: 2010-05-16T22:00:00+00:00

“Shouldn’t have done? Are you forgetting what happened to Nancy? To Luc? She could have been in on it.”

“Who’s Luc?” she managed, through gritted teeth.

Eidolon answered, but kept his angry gaze on Shade. “Paramedic. Werewolf. The Aegis surprised him in his house, where he’d locked himself up for the full moon. They killed his mate, tried to take him alive.”

“Animals,” Shade growled. “He even said they smelled like animals. Apes. But he took two of you scumbags out.”

Trey and Michelle. She drew a sharp, and painful, breath. Kynan said that the Guardians were ambushed. “Your were is lying. Guardians chased them—”

“Were you there?” It was more than a question; it was an accusation.

“No.”

“Yeah. Right.” Shadows flitted in Shade’s eyes . . . actual shadows from within that turned his brownish-black eyes completely black as he looked at Eidolon from across the table. “What if she was? Would that make a difference to you? Or would you still be panting after her like a—”

“This conversation ends now.” Eidolon’s tone was a portent for trouble. “Numb her.”

Cursing, Shade grasped her wrist again, hard enough to cause pain on its own, but immediately, warm relaxation washed over her.

Something else washed over her, too. Gratitude. Eidolon couldn’t hurt her inside the hospital; she knew that. But he also didn’t have to relieve her pain. If he wanted her to suffer, she’d suffer. She couldn’t help but wonder, if the situation were reversed, would she have done the same?

“No,” she whispered, and Eidolon frowned.

“Are you still in pain?” One hand flew to her other wrist to check her pulse. “What is it?”

“Sorry,” she choked out. “Talking to myself.”

He looked at her as if she was daft, and Shade shook his head, but then they went back to what they’d been doing, and she went back to wondering when she’d started feeling something other than blind hatred for the demon.

What terrific timing, given that she was supposed to help destroy the hospital, and him with it.

While Hellboy stitched her up, she got intimate with the lay of the land. Not that she could see much except crimson-splashed gray walls and a ceiling from which huge pulleys and chains hung, but hey, no creepy detail would go wasted. She’d always hated hospitals, but the smell of disinfectant and the sound of equipment beeping actually comforted her now, bits of normalcy in what could otherwise be a terrifying place.

The gentle tugging on her skin stopped. Eidolon snipped the thread he’d been working with.

“Done?” she asked.

“Yep.”

Shade yanked his hand away. “Good. I’m going to go help a patient who actually deserves it.” He stalked out. Pain immediately began to throb in her abdomen.

“Damn him,” Eidolon muttered, so softly she barely heard.

“It’s okay. I don’t blame him. Not after what happened to Nancy.”

Eidolon’s startled gaze flickered to hers. “I can give you painkillers,” he offered roughly, ignoring what she’d said.

She shook her head. “I need to stay alert.” Going fuzzy in enemy territory could be disastrous. Besides, after her mom died, she’d sworn never to touch drugs again.

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