Spells and Shifter Mates by Leigh Kelsey

Author:Leigh Kelsey [Kelsey, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

13

Blueprints

Rani didn’t feel particularly well rested when she woke up hours later, the sky dark outside the bedroom window. She’d slept through the whole day, but at least she wasn’t dizzy when she stood. She’d slept off Dark Star’s compulsion, and her magic, it seemed, had repaired itself. Or recharged like a battery—she didn’t really know how it worked.

She left Eri in bed, pale but still breathing, and padded out into the big room, finding Tom and Nigh still awake and poring over what looked alarmingly like blueprints.

Rani made a beeline for the kettle and flicked it on, needing caffeine if she was going to get through anything that involved plans. She’d told them to find a way for her to get Eri the cure, but this was already more complex than anything she could have come up with herself.

“Rani,” Tom said, jumping off the couch and hurrying over to her, pulling her into a tight hug as he rubbed up and down her back. Rani sighed, melting into the touch as her eyes fluttered shut. “Feeling any better, gorgeous?”

Rani nodded against his shoulder. “A bit. Are you okay? You and Nigh? Did Dark Star hurt you? I was so focussed on Eri—”

“We’re fine,” Tom assured her, pulling back to give her a grin. “It’d take a bit more than a lance of midnight magic to take us down.”

“A lance?” Rani frowned, flattening her hands against his lower back as she held onto him, staring up into his icy blue eyes. “That’s what he used?”

She remembered the dark spear Orion had shot at her.

Tom nodded, tracing the line of her jaw with a knuckle. “He tried to send them at us, but he couldn’t get past Nigh’s wind. It’s how he snared you; he charmed you, and grabbed you with it like a harpoon.”

Rani chewed her bottom lip, jumping out of her skin at the snap of the kettle button when it finished boiling. She held tighter to Tom, instinct making her press close, knowing she was safe with him. She drew short, shallow breaths, his scent twining with the oxygen that expanded her lungs until she calmed, feeling silly for jumping at shadows.

“We won’t let anything bad happen to you,” Tom promised quietly, seriously. He feathered a kiss over her cheekbone and warmth bled from the brand on her thigh, their bond surging with strength and affection.

“I know,” Rani murmured. She might not have known them long enough to trust them a hundred percent, but she was eighty percent there. “And I won’t let anything bad happen to you, either,” she insisted, peering up at him. “I promise.”

Tom’s blue eyes softened. His hand slid along her cheek, cupping her face, and he kissed her, all softness and promise. It wasn’t what she’d expect from a mischievous cat like Tom, but it was perfect, and exactly what she needed. Her hands fisted in the back of Tom’s shirt, her chest pressed to his, and she kissed him harder, faster, coaxing a moan from the back of his throat.

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