The Vampire Hunte by Childs Lisa

Author:Childs, Lisa [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance:Fantasy
ISBN: 9781426866692
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-31T14:00:00+00:00

Instead of rejoicing over his long-sought revenge, Liam tensed with foreboding. He didn’t regret the kill; it hadn’t been an act of vigilante justice. He’d acted in self-defense—and to protect Jennifer.

But right now she seemed as determined to protect herself as she had when she’d first encountered him in the alley. She wrapped her arms tightly around herself as she had her robe, closing herself off from him. Were they, and the passion they’d shared, what she had just pronounced over?

As his gut knotted, he worried that their intimacy was over. And that troubled him. Tonight, and their making love, had been a moment of weakness. Not something he’d ever planned or would ever consider repeating. Making love with her had betrayed Bryan. He shouldn’t have been able to experience what his brother had been denied. Because of the killer…

“It’s over,” he reminded himself. If only avenging Bryan’s murder could absolve him of his guilt.

She shook her head, her blond hair tangling around the shoulders of her pink robe. “Roger may not be dead.”

His guilt turned to anger and unease. Despite the stake Liam had plunged into the vampire’s heart, Roger had had the strength to fly from the apartment. Had Liam missed? “No,” he answered his own doubts. “I know that I got the stake in…”

Deep enough to do the damage required to end the life of an immortal monster? The doubts nagged, knotting his stomach muscles.

“If you’d done that in any other city, it might have been enough. But here in Zantrax the society has a special surgeon.” Her eyes brightened with awe. “A brilliant surgeon. He knows how to reverse the damage of a stake through the heart. He can cure what used to be incurable.”

“No.” He shook his head. “That’s not possible.”

“I guess your intel on the society wasn’t as thorough as you’d thought.”

Tension gripped him harder and not just over the possibility that Bryan’s killer would survive his injury, but because of her tone. She wasn’t just closed off; she was pissed off.

“Are you mad?” he asked. “Would you rather that I hadn’t hurt him?”

“How could you even ask me that?” she asked, her voice cracking as she took obvious offense. “You think that I would rather he had hurt you?” Tears dampened her eyes, but she laughed, echoing his bitterness. “You will never trust me.”

“I spent years thinking you’d killed my brother,” Liam reminded her. “It’s not easy to put aside all that anger and suspicion.”

She nodded and sent one of the tears over the rim of her lower lid; it streaked down her cheek. “You still hate me.”

“No,” he assured her. If only he did, he wouldn’t have betrayed his brother.

“But you blame me for his death.”

“I shouldn’t have done that, either,” he admitted. It wasn’t her fault that she was so damned beautiful that his brother had loved her too much to let her go.

“Why not?” she asked. “You were actually right about that. It is my fault. I should have known that Bryan would look for me.

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