Through the Red Door (Vampires & Mages & Weres, Oh My!) by Rhodes Devon

Author:Rhodes, Devon [Rhodes, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780857151698
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2010-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

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The café was warm and welcoming, and the aroma of what looked like the most enormous cinnamon rolls he had ever seen reminded Seth of the natural scent of the man at his side. Who is even more edible, he thought with a burst of lust that was beginning to become commonplace around the slighter male.

Kyrian had refused to be carried into the restaurant, but allowed Seth to brace his injured side with his arm hooked around Seth’s shoulders, using him as a living crutch. As they approached the counter, an attractive male waiter came hurrying to their side.

“Kyr! Oh my God, what did you do to yourself? Why didn’t you call me?”

“Hey, Locke.” Kyrian smiled beautifully at the stranger, and Seth barely restrained a growl of possessiveness that welled out of nowhere. Get a grip, he urged himself.

“I fractured my ankle. Don’t ask how, it’s too embarrassing,” Kyrian continued, sounding friendly, but there was a tenseness to his frame, still pressed against Seth’s side.

“Here, I have a booth open. It’s kind of in the back…”

“Perfect,” Seth interjected. He wanted as much privacy as he could get.

Locke bent a cold look on Seth, who returned the look tit for tat.

“Uh, guys?” Kyrian broke the visual stand-off with his uneasy tone and they both returned their attention to him. “Can we go sit?”

“Sure, babe, follow me.” Babe? Seth seethed. Locke grabbed a couple of of menus and led the way to the very back of the café, Seth practically hauling Kyrian, who looked at him in question.

Not ready to address his possessive reaction, either in his head or out loud, he helped Kyrian get comfortable in the booth with his cast up on the seat opposite then defiantly slid in right next to him, ignoring the menu Locke had set in the opposite place setting.

“Hmph.” Locke stalked away, heading for the nearby drink station, and Seth used the privacy to whisper to Kyrian.

“Who’s Locke to you?” There. That sounded reasonable. Casual.

Kyrian looked taken aback as a slight frown puckered his forehead. “He’s a close friend.”

“Just how close?” This barely not an accusation. Maybe.

A voice intruded into their space. “Close enough to know that you are a very recent addition to his life.” A glass of water hit the table in front of him. Locke filled Kyrian’s upturned coffee mug with a glare at Seth and set down the carafe along with a chilled pitcher of cream. “And you appeared at the same time he ended up injured.”

“Locke! Goodness, it had nothing to do with Seth. Stop it.” Kyrian flushed as he glanced pleadingly between the two men. “Both of you.”

Seth squeezed Kyrian’s thigh apologetically under the table as Locke responded, “I’m sorry, babe. You’ve just been so quiet lately…” Locke’s eyes flicked again to Seth, this time with markedly less hostility. “But I’m assuming the worst. Maybe you’ve been quiet because all is good.”

“It’s getting better all the time.” Kyrian smiled gratefully at Seth, covering his hand with

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