Slade by Sarah McCarty

Author:Sarah McCarty [McCarty, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101552742
Google: -mJRcE0fVMwC
Amazon: 0425241394
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 2011-12-05T13:00:00+00:00

10

CLOSING the door, Slade turned around, the gun in his hand. He looked entirely too natural that way for her peace of mind. Too sexy. He also looked incredibly tired.

“Anything I can help you with,” Jane asked, despite her best intentions. She knew how it was to have people relying on you 24/7, to face impossible demands because it meant life or death.

Hefting the gun, he admitted, “I could use a few more hours in the day.”

“What? With all your magical powers, you haven’t managed that?”

He tossed the gun to his other hand. “I’m working on it.”

Damn him for being agreeable. It made it that much harder to hate him. “What’s wrong with the guns?”

“One of the refractions is likely off.”

“You say that like fixing it is no big deal.”

“It’ll just take time.”

“Time you don’t have.”

He didn’t deny the guess. “I’ll find it.”

“It can’t wait?”

“No.”

Paper rustled under her fingers. “Neither can Joseph.”

Slade set the gun on one of the long tables. “I know.”

Yes, he did. Jane could feel Slade’s determination and frustration as though it were her own. It was disconcerting, not only because of the force of the emotion but also because it seemed so natural in its blending with her own. Experimentally, she put her wall around it. There was a start and then a withdrawal. Interesting. She apparently did have some control.

Stacking the files, she pushed her chair back a little harder than she’d planned. She caught the chair with her heel before it rolled past the drawer labeled “Syringes.” “I guess you do.” Opening the drawer, she said, “I’m going to need a blood sample.”

“The one we got from Joseph earlier isn’t enough?” He shook his head. “You’re worse than a vampire.”

“Not from Joseph.” She prepared a vacuum tube and needle. “I need your blood.”

He flashed his fangs. “I’ll be happy to share.”

She shook her head and set the tube on the table. “You’re going to have to work harder than that to scare me. Give me your arm.”

Rolling up his sleeve, Slade took a step closer. “Interesting challenge.”

“What makes it so interesting?”

“My options.”

Delicious heat poured over her in a wave of energy as she wrapped the tourniquet across the thick bulge of his biceps. “I wasn’t aware you had any.”

He picked up the tube and handed it to her. His fingers lingered against hers as she took it. The touch was light. There was no reason for her breath to catch, or her pulse to pick up speed, but it did.

“At least two.”

Popping the cap off the needle, she asked, “Do I want to know?”

“I don’t know. How fond are you of surprises?”

“I know I don’t like bad ones.” Especially after the last twenty-four hours.

His head canted slightly to the side as she slid the needle into the vein at the front of his elbow. “What about good ones?”

Blood filled the vacuum tube, warming it, giving the impression, for an instant, that she held his life in her hands. Not a responsibility she wanted.

“I don’t know.

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