The Temptation of Magic by Megan Scott

Author:Megan Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2024-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

Kyan

Kyan wasn’t sure he should move. He stared, shirtless, at the dark doorway Nicole had gone through, and he had to force himself not to follow, not to haul her back toward him and continue feeling every curve, every toned inch. He cursed the new memory of her breasts against his chest as desire roared beneath his skin, hot and loud.

How was it that she managed to surprise him at every turn of this mission?

When he heard her bedroom door close, he forced his mind back to Lynch. That was his focus here, not Nicole. Not tonight, not any night. But as he finally forced his body to move, to the simple task of turning around and leaving—

He stilled as a knife of a different kind of hunger drew his attention. Kyan breathed deeply, scenting that newly delicious, addictive fragrance. It clutched at his gut, and he looked down at the broken shards of Nicole’s cup still lying on the floor.

Blood.

He stared. Nicole had said she didn’t want her blood around him in case it was a temptation. He frowned, part of him wanting to leave it. Tasting her blood after being close might . . . complicate matters. And yet it offered him the perfect opportunity to understand something that had puzzled him about her from the first moment they met.

What was she hiding?

Kyan squatted. He hesitated before stroking a finger through a spatter of blood. Lynch’s attack had changed the playing field.

And then she’d kissed him.

This mission had a fine, deadly balance, and if Kyan failed, Nicole might get seriously hurt. She might scream, she might be afraid. . . .

He allowed the blood to meet his tongue.

Sensation exploded. She tasted like she smelled: some unusual liquid ambrosia that called to his Empyreal beneath his slowly transforming body. Any kind of vampiric creature took years to develop and understand the taste of different creatures’ blood. Kyan had never been one long enough to learn the differences. But he knew one thing. The taste of Nicole’s blood was . . . more. It pulsed with a promise that made his Empyrean senses roar to life. Perhaps she was some kind of unknown creature and that was why she was so defensive about her visions, why she moved and smelled so unlike any Seer he’d ever met.

Could that explain his draw to her?

But it hadn’t been a Specter’s hunger that had made him want her with an almost wicked desire.

No, that had been purely him.

Kyan swept up the shards slowly, to prove to her that he wasn’t now some raging beast for her blood. For her though . . . he had felt it in those moments she was crushed up against him. But it wasn’t just the soft press of her body that set his teeth on edge and his urges murmuring with need. It had been her eyes, just before she’d cut her hand. Those lovely, concerned eyes after he’d told her about his mother. She cared. She

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