Tempting the Fire by Sydney Croft

Author:Sydney Croft [Croft, Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Erotica, Fiction, General, Romance, Adult, Erotic fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Occult fiction, Brazil, Animal communicators, Rain forests, United States, Cryptozoology
ISBN: 9780385342285
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2010-07-27T03:08:02+00:00

before it could make a surprise attack.

Sela had turned so they were back to back and moving together—four eyes circling continuously, an excellent instinctive safety move.

Except it wasn’t instinctive. Someone had taught her quite well, and he didn’t have time to think about why a cryptozoologist needed to know combat moves, because the snarling, red-eyed chupa leaped out of the tree directly in front of him with no further fanfare, as if tired of hiding.

As if it knew it was unstoppable.

Well, fuck that.

Logan shot four rounds at the beast, but the damned thing was fast as well as strong, and suddenly it took him by the throat and threw him, violently.

Sela screamed as Logan landed with a jolting crash against the trunk of a tree. He willed himself not to pass out, because the beast had stopped focusing on him and was moving toward Sela.

With a roar, he used the momentum from pushing away from the tree to fling himself toward the chupacabra.

His mechanical arm still functioned, despite the break in the wires, but it felt weak and his legs weren’t much better. He needed an advantage, and as much as he hated to do it, he let the rage that had been slowly building since he was injured yesterday take over.

It was a risk—he couldn’t be sure if he’d be able to bring himself back from the edge.

“Sela, get to camp,” he managed to yell before he saw red—literally.

The next moments were a blur. He had a vague awareness of grabbing the creature by the throat, the cold, scaled skin crumpling under his fingers. His emotions were out of his control completely for those moments, and he felt the urge to kill race through him. He rolled with the beast, both fighting for the upper hand—he heard his own grunts mix with the chupacabra’s, the metallic taste of his own blood in his mouth from when he’d been slammed by the creature.

Sela’s yells brought him back to a lucidity of sorts, and it was then he remembered Chance and the infection, and he managed to stay out of reach of the thing’s teeth. And he knew that if he didn’t pull back his fury immediately, the bioware malfunction would take over the human emotion … and he’d be as much of a danger to Sela as the chupacabra.

Bad enough she’d seen him so out of control.

He wasn’t sure if he let go or if the chupa got away, but he saw it disappear into the thick brush. “Why did it run? Something must’ve spooked it. Unless I did manage to hurt it—if it’s weak, now’s the perfect time to go after it.”

He heard himself babbling, felt his disorientation. Dammit, he needed his injection, and soon.

“Logan, it’s okay—you must’ve scared it.”

He stared at her. Her eyes held concern not fear, and good, that was good.

“I can get it. I have to.”

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