Sensual Magic by Lauren Dane

Author:Lauren Dane [Dane, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460399835
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Nell spoke quietly with her contact, getting the information on where Leah and the mages were holed up. She passed him some money and walked back over to the table where William sat quietly, pretending not to be fascinated by the place.

“Come on upstairs with me. It’s quieter and you can look at the place from a better vantage point.”

She led him to one of the balconies that framed the second story of Darkness. Up there it was lush. The ultramodern chrome of the downstairs area was still there, but plush, thick banquette seating lined the walls and the railing was built in such a way that one could sit, drink and still see much of the action below.

“So? What do you think?” she asked after they’d sunk into the cushions.

“I just had no idea. This whole universe exists and I didn’t know about it. I’m fascinated and repulsed all at once.”

She nodded. “It’s always here, just beneath the surface. Most of the time people see it and because it’s so strange their brains just reject it. I suppose that’s what keeps us safe. Those wards aren’t to harm your kind, they’re to protect us.”

“From what? You’re the ones with superpowers. I mean, if anything, we’re the ones who need protecting.”

“From that very attitude. There are billions of humans on the earth. There are millions of us. Not hundreds of millions, either. We keep to ourselves and hide our abilities because there are those who’d hang us, put us in camps, round us up and use us if our existence was well-known. We’re wary for a reason.” She shrugged. “We have rules. We don’t harm you all unless it’s in self-defense. Some of us need more policing than others, like vampires who can pass on their state via fluid transmission.”

“There are, like, what? Cops for you guys then? More than what you do?”

“I’m a cop of sorts for my Clan. For witches. I don’t go out and hunt werewolves or vampires who go rogue. There are those who do that though, yes.”

“Tell me about it.”

She laughed. “I really can’t. In the first place I don’t know that much and in the second place, it’s not my story to tell.” She shifted, putting her beer down on the low table, feeling the pulse of the music low and deep, in the same place where her need for him resided. Her skirt rode up to just below the fold of her lap and she let it.

“Why are you here with me now, William?”

He put his drink down, sliding his palm up her thigh. “I don’t know. I can’t not be. I want to touch you so bad. What is it about you that draws me this way?”

She widened her thighs in invitation, and in the low light she noted his pupils swallowing nearly all the color in his eyes.

“If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me. So just touch me and let yourself want. Give it free rein. You’ve got nothingto lose.

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