The Royal Occult Bureau by Barbara Russell

Author:Barbara Russell
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Me Myself and I
Published: 2020-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

DR JESSICA BLACK examined my eyes with a candlelight so close, the heat warmed my cheeks. If she’d noticed the traces of the ravishing kiss I’d exchanged with Evander a few hours ago, she didn’t show any sign. We’d been locked in my bedroom for a while, and she’d prodded and examined my head a few times.

“You’re fully recovered,” she said, blowing off the candle, thank goodness. “Even the strained muscles of your neck are better.”

“I’m surprised I healed so quickly.” My head didn’t hurt, and the bruise on my cheek was reduced to a faint blue dot. “What did you give me?”

“A special tonic we give to our agents to help them heal fast.”

The sharp click of her medical bag sounded like thunder in my quiet room.

After the kiss, Evander had shut himself in his room, and not a sound came from it. His behaviour left me puzzled and bothered. He obviously had problems when it came with dirty-puzzling, but dashed if I knew why. I considered myself, if not an expert, at least a connoisseur of men, but he made fun of all my years of experience.

I cast a hopeless glance towards his room. “So I can leave the house for a walk?”

Her grey eyes narrowed. “Where do you want to go?”

“Evander and the other agents of his team are going to patrol the Fair Maiden, waiting for the incubus. I want to go with them.”

“Absolutely not!” Her fingers flared to her chest. “As your physician and as a member of the bureau, my advice is to stay here. It’s too dangerous, and you need rest.”

“I’m not going to sit here, waiting for news or for the incubus to find me.”

“The incubus will not find you.” Evander’s booming voice came through the closed door. “And you’re going to stay here.”

He was giving me orders, was he? “You can open the door and order me to stay here while looking at me.”

The door swung inwards, and he swept into view in all his magnificence enhanced by black leather trousers and a matching tight jacket. Daggers were strapped on his powerful thighs. His size and menacing build dwarfed the room and started an illicit frisson between my legs. I shouldn’t be aroused by his predatory attitude.

“You’re staying here.” There was nothing of the passionate yet gentle man who had kissed me in this battle-hardened, harsh warrior. And why was it so deuced exciting?

“I’m a free woman.” I stuck out my chin. Come on, fight me.

“Under my protection.”

Oh, I wanted to be under him all right.

Some of my desire must’ve transpired because his lashes fluttered down and he turned to Jessica.

“I need my shot,” he said, dismissing me.

“Of course.” Jessica unrolled a leather sheet on the bed and took out a syringe and a vial of a dark green liquid.

My anger and lust evaporated. “Are you sick? What’s that shot for?”

He rolled up a sleeve and showed his arm where fat veins stood out. “The shot is to make sure I don’t fall sick.

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