Valkyrie's Call by Michelle Manus

Author:Michelle Manus [Manus, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seclusion Publishing

“How is it going?” Mia asked. She was five feet three inches of curvy, bubbly excitement, and Random was not entirely sure they were far enough away from his table that Kyrie wouldn’t feel the waves of enthusiasm radiating off the woman.

“You mean how was it going before I left my date at the whim of another woman?”

Mia rolled her eyes. “You’re avoiding the question.”

“It’s going just fine.”

“That was convincing. You don’t sound happy. You don’t look happy. Why aren’t you happy? I have it on good authority you were making out in the parking lot—speaking of, what are you, sixteen all of a sudden?—and you were holding hands, so what’s the problem?”

“The only problem is the length of time I have been gone from my date.”

Mia crossed her arms. “This isn’t one of those hetero male things where you finally secure the affections of your beloved and then decide you don’t want her anymore, is it?”

“Of course I still want her.” A little too much. “But I am fairly positive she doesn’t want me.”

“She ordered for you, didn’t she? Accurately, I’m told.”

“It’s hardly a sign of true love that she can pick a menu item for me and goddess, woman, do you have that poor server reporting our every interaction back to you?”

“Poor nothing. Liam is well-paid and—”

“Walking toward us like his ass is on fire?” Random suggested.

Liam came to a breathless halt in front of them. His eyes darted between Mia and Random, as if unsure which of them to address. He eventually settled on the space between them. “There’s someone here.”

A vague feeling of unease crept up Random’s spine, even as Mia said, “You’re going to have to be more specific than that, Liam.”

“At the table. With Ms. Winters.”

Random was already moving when he felt Valkyrie’s Aspect punch the air. It roiled through the restaurant like a dark cloud, a swift-moving storm of her fury. He rounded the corner to the aisle that led to their table, and the cold violence in her eyes told him precisely who sat across from her.

Her gaze flicked to him for less than a second, but he read the message in it loud and clear: Back off, I’ve got it handled.

He couldn’t back off. Not even for her. Because it was her. His Aspect sensed a threat to her and surfaced with a vengeance, a tidal wave spurred by the winds of her anger. His need to protect her was instinctual, undeniable.

The restaurant’s windows rattled in their frames, as if set in motion by the beginning tremors of an earthquake. He heard hairline cracks etch through the glass, had no doubt the windows would have shattered if Kyrie’s Aspect hadn’t streaked forward and wrapped around him.

Her power slid over his skin, strong as steel and soft as spider silk, more heady than any wine. That touch alone might have been enough to bring him down, to dim the red haze in his vision long enough for him to accept that she didn’t want his help.

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