The Darkling's Surrender by Lauren Hawkeye

Author:Lauren Hawkeye
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Gavin had no idea what he’d done, but he hated admitting it. Still, what choice did he have?

“I just…I was angry.” Mostly he was angry that either of the deadly duo had laid hands on Aubrey, even though he was still angry with her himself, but he didn’t see the need to mention that. “I wanted to get them off us.” Off her.

“And then that blue light was coming from my hands again. But instead of healing, it pushed them away. It was like a blast. A big blast of…I don’t know.” He truly didn’t. “It was hot. Dry. Like the air in a desert.”

Aubrey stared at him as if she’d never seen anyone more strange. She bit her lower lip, and he saw that her fangs were fully extended.

Given the last few hours, the notion of a blood-drinking vampire didn’t freak him out as much as he’d been when he first realized she’d bitten him and turned him into a vampire.

“You’re thirsty?” Still, he wasn’t sure he could let her drink from him. His own thirst had been fully abated by the small taste that he’d had earlier.

Her hunger seemed darker and deeper.

She licked her lips, then deliberately shook her head.

“I’ll be fine.” He suspected that she was just too proud to ask him for a drink. “But I don’t know how much more I can take of this bracelet. I don’t know why it’s hurting me so badly.”

Gently he lifted her wrist until he could see it easily. Her skin was raw and red, even peeling away in some spots, and when his fingers accidentally brushed it she winced.

“Sorry.” As carefully as he could, he tilted the cuff until it caught a gleam of light from a streetlight shining golden just outside the alley.

The light showed him a marking carved into metal. Sterling silver. Huh.

He told Aubrey what is was. She winced again.

“Well, that myth is true, then.” Her eyes were starting to look glassy, with a crystalline sheen overtop the sky blue. “Wonder if the one about garlic is, too. That’d be a kicker. I love garlic.”

“Aubrey.” He caught her chin in his hand and turned her face toward his. Earlier today she’d looked vital, strong. Like a high-definition version of her old self.

Now she looked as if she was on the verge of collapse. The physician, the man and the id in him all stirred at the sight.

The physician wanted to heal.

The man wanted to protect.

The id? It was connected directly to his cock, and he was abashed at the fact that just holding her in his arms, breathing her in, made his glans stir, even when she was so weak.

The first two made up his mind. He held his wrist in front of her face, and he saw her pupils dilate at the sight of his throbbing pulse.

“Do it.” He was fascinated to see her fangs gleam white in the faint light from the street. “Quickly. It will help until we can get the bracelet off.

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