Shiloh Walker-Hunter's Salvation by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-09T18:15:08+00:00

"Did it occur to you to warn us?" Malachi growled. Unless Vax was mistaken, there was a faint bit of color on Mal's otherwise pale face. As though the vampire just might be blushing.

Nessa just shrugged. "We all knew. And, well… you usually pick up on these things on your own." A grin tugged at her lips, and she didn't bother trying to hide it. "I wonder why you didn't this time."

Malachi snarled at her.

Vax suspected he knew why. Malachi saw the were and didn't bother looking for magick. Nessa had placed the shields over Dena's body the moment she had set foot inside the cabin. Vax had felt them and breathed a sigh of relief. He could contain Dena's magick, but not indefinitely. Nessa, though—that was a different story.

It was possible that Nessa's presence alone dampened the feel of anybody else's magick. Would explain why Mal didn't sense it.

The cagey bastard was almost as sensitive to magick as any witch would be. Mal felt it now, though. Vax knew it by the look on his face. It was slowly bleeding from fury to confusion.

"This isna right," Malachi muttered.

Preoccupation had thickened Mal's accent. When the vampire wanted, he could speak with a complete lack of accent. But when he was distracted, angry, worried… the thick burr of Scotland came out.

The vampire's nostrils flared, and he breathed in slowly. "How in the hell am I seeing this? I can't be seeing this. It just isna possible." He planted his hands on his hips and stared at Dena as though she were some lab specimen.

And that probably wasn't too far off, Vax mused. He glanced at Jess, thinking about what she had told him, the little memory flash she had picked up from the were. A syringe. A cell.

Then there was what he felt when he looked at this woman. She felt wrong. There was nothing natural about how she felt.

Nothing.

There was a leaden weight in the pit of his stomach.

Vax glanced at Mal with sympathy. "Sorry, old man. You are seeing this."

"But this isna possible."

Vax lifted a shoulder. "Didn't think so, either." There was proof lying in the bathtub of just how possible it was. The how of it was slowly coming clear inside his head, and it only made the uneasiness crawling down his spine get worse.

A lot worse.

"Jess, I think maybe you need to tell them about what you picked up from Dena."

It didn't take her long. She explained in a flat monotone, as if she were some school kid giving a report on a book that hadn't interested her at all. She was nervous, though. He could tell. Whenever she was nervous, she had this bad habit of gritting her teeth, and when she finished speaking, she bit down so hard that Vax wouldn't have been surprised if the enamel cracked.

"What does this mean?" Malachi asked, shaking his head. "It makes no sense."

But it did. It was making a sickening sense to Vax. He looked at Nessa and saw nothing but worry in her dark blue eyes.

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