Saving His Mate by Marie Medina

Author:Marie Medina [Medina, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00DIIAPWE
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2013-06-18T12:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Lance’s eyes snapped open when he heard moaning. He turned and found the bed empty. “Tavok?”

He only heard more moaning, but he couldn’t tell if the sounds were good or bad. Scanning the room, he slowly rose from the bed. Nothing seemed out of place, but where was Tavok? Though he searched every room, Lance found nothing. He went to one of the glass doors and gazed out into the small garden, but he saw nothing except flowers.

Lance grabbed an outer robe from the armoire and headed for the door that led out of Tavok’s private rooms. He opened the door and looked in each direction. While he was wondering which way to go, he heard the moans again. Now, the sounds came to him more clearly, and he could say without any doubt that they were moans of pain. He followed the sound down a flight of stairs that he didn’t remember from earlier.

The stairs led him to a door, and the moans seemed to be coming from behind it. He looked back up the stairs, but the rest of the castle remained silent. Why hadn’t the sounds awakened anyone else? And where was Tavok? Lance opened the door and stepped forward, but the room was pitch black. However, he kept moving forward because someone behind him was pushing him into the darkness. When he tried to turn around, the hands pushing him clawed his back, slicing into the skin.

Lance cried out and tried to pull free of whoever was behind him. He twisted and bent low to try to get away, but the claws only dug deeper. A mouth came to the back of his neck and bit into the flesh there, hard. Lance felt the blood flowing down his back. Lance managed to grab his attacker by the back of the neck. He was able to free himself, and then he fell to the floor. The moaning had stopped, and he couldn’t hear his attacker moving. Lance kept his breathing shallow, but he still couldn’t hear anything. He would’ve fled the room, but he couldn’t see the door. He hadn’t heard it close, but the sound of it shutting could have been drowned out by his struggles. As Lance tried to get to his feet, the clawed hands grabbed him again. He screamed, writhing against the creature as he tried to free himself again.

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Tavok jolted awake and rolled onto his knees when he heard Lance scream. Lance lay on his stomach clutching his pillow and shaking as if he were in pain. “Lance, what is it?” Lance’s eyes remained closed, and he didn’t acknowledge Tavok in any way. “Wake up!”

Lance gave a groan, and then his eyes blinked open. He turned his head and buried it against the pillow clutched to his chest.

“Lance, it was a dream. What’s wrong?”

Sweat coated Lance’s skin, and he still shook a little as he rolled over and looked up into Tavok’s eyes. Tavok had seen Lance upset several times as he’d first dealt with Elizabella’s death, but Tavok had never seen the man scared.

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