Warrior Untamed by Shannon Curtis

Author:Shannon Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Oh, my God,” Melissa gasped behind him, as she saw the three vampires land on the roof, and then suddenly she overtook him, dragging him into the building. She slammed the door closed behind them, muttering a protection spell as she slid the lock home. Thuds and cracks echoed on the other side of the door, and Melissa flinched as the door shook.

“How long will that hold?” Hunter asked. She turned to him. He wasn’t even panting, not like she was.

“A little while,” she said, and turned to clamber down the stairs toward her apartment. “Those spells are durable against a shadow breed.” She shook her head. “They were vampires. I don’t understand. Since when are the vamps and mutts in cahoots? They hate each other.”

“Well, let’s see,” Hunter said as he trotted down the stairs behind her. “How likely is it that you would piss off both the lycans and the vamps so much, at the same time, that they would band together against you?”

Melissa drew to a stop outside her apartment door, and bit her lip. Uh-oh. “Well, um...”

Hunter shot her a resigned look. “What did you do?”

“I may have substituted silver for steel cutlery at the Reform ball this year.” Silver was toxic for both vampires and shifters, and touching silver was about the same as caressing acid for them. Silver cutlery wasn’t enough to kill the shadow breeds, by any means, but it had made everyone who came into contact with it damned uncomfortable. Her mother had been furious, and had banned her from the winter solstice celebrations as punishment.

It had been totally worth it.

Hunter gaped. “Silver? At the Reform ball?” He closed his mouth and gave her an assessing look. “You can be so devious,” he murmured, and she blushed at the amused appreciation she saw in his eyes.

She ducked her head. “So you see, it might not be some twisted plan of your father’s,” she admitted. The cutlery switch wasn’t intended as a fatal attack on the shadow breeds, but it had provided enough of a disruption that some of the more secret conversations couldn’t be conducted, with everyone eyeing anything that looked remotely metallic with suspicion.

She pulled the keys out of her jeans pocket and slid one into the lock.

Hunter braced his hand against the wall beside the door, and her awareness narrowed down to the bunched biceps so close to her head. “You know, you really are a—”

The loud crashing from one floor below startled them both, and Melissa clutched her chest as Hunter took a few steps down the lower stairwell and peered around the corner.

“It’s okay, that door is warded, too.”

Hunter looked back at her, his expression grim. “Something tells me that’s not going to stop them this time.”

She frowned and removed her keys, jogging down the steps to check it out. Her wards were impenetrable. She’d used a lot of magic, and she’d even had her brother, Dave, assist her in creating a blood lock.

“No fangs,

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