Tempt Me Eternally by Gena Showalter

Author:Gena Showalter [Showalter, Gena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Love stories, General, Fiction - Romance, Romance - Paranormal, Paranormal, American Light Romantic Fiction, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Occult fiction, Romance & Sagas, American, Christmas stories
ISBN: 9781439159668
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-10-26T08:00:00+00:00

SIX

“COME WITH ME.”

Ignoring the unfamiliar Rakan’s command, Aleaha remained seated at the far end of the cell. She wasn’t sure exactly how long she’d been inside it. At least eight hours. Probably twelve. Maybe an eternity. She’d heard the other “guests” clanging against their bars, heard the whisper of their conversations, but when she’d called out in Macy’s voice—where’s backup, these warriors hate the Schön as much as we do, tell me what you want me to do—no one had answered her.

“Come,” the warrior said again.

He wasn’t her warrior, Breean, so she didn’t feel any urge to comply. “I’m not going anywhere with you.” Surely Breean hadn’t tired of her already. Surely he wasn’t palming her off on one of his men. Oh, God. What if he was? She hadn’t exactly been the nicest of captives.

Captives aren’t supposed to be nice, idiot. He’d seen her naked. Maybe he’d disliked what he’d seen. Oh, God, she thought again.

The warrior looked like him: golden skin, golden hair, big, lovely features better suited for a woman yet somehow completely masculine. But his golden eyes didn’t mesmerize her. He didn’t smell of honey and cinnamon, and she had no desire to try to seduce him to kindness. She had no idea how to deal with him, actually.

“Are those . . .” His eyes widened as he spotted the trail of blood she’d accidentally created along the floor.

“Diamonds?” she finished for him, pretending to misunderstand. “Fat stacks of cash?”

Panic consumed his expression when that gaze reached the blood dried on her wrists. He backed away, probably not even aware that he did so. These men hadn’t blinked at facing down the lethal members of AIR, but show them a little blood and they wanted to hide.

“Did you cut yourself?”

She saw no reason to lie. “Yes.”

“What did you use? You’re wearing our clothing, which means Breean checked you for weapons when you changed. And,” he gazed around, “there is nothing sharp inside this cell.”

She just shrugged.

“Tell me how—” He jumped away from her as if she were poison.

Jeez. She was just stretching out her legs to get more comfortable. She was all for precaution, but really, these men took their hatred and fear a little too far. What would he do if she bit her arm and dripped on his shoe?

Hey. That might actually be a good escape plan. She’d hold out her bloody arm, and the guys would beat feet, too afraid to grab her. She could walk right out of the house. But what about the rest of the agents? She could come back with help—if she could find it.

So much time had passed without an AIR assault, part of her now thought something nefarious had happened to Mia and her backup squad. They were good at their jobs, after all, and knew how to track and find the unfindable. The other part of her wondered whether Mia and her squad had stayed away on purpose. But why would they do that?

“Doesn’t matter, I guess,” the warrior before her said, reclaiming her attention.

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