White Fire by Laurie Bell

Author:Laurie Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laurie Bell
Published: 2017-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

She knew the exact moment everything went to shenghi. Her leg started to twitch and a spike of remembered pain speared through her upper arm. Massaging the muscle, she searched the bar for the source of her unease. When she saw him, her eyes sprang wide. Her skin turned to ice and she ducked low in her chair. Don’t see me!

Raising her hand up to cover her face, Toni refused to look back at the door. In her mind, she pictured him as she’d just seen him, slouched in the well-lit doorway looking all mysterious and dangerous.

Curiosity was a curse. After a long moment, she glanced up just in time to see Daniel Colten fall into the lap of a Nymph sitting at a table in the center. The woman’s pale, lime-kissed skin looked burnished bronze under the bar’s lighting. The two fingerhorns on her forehead were painted with red tips. Colten leaned over to sip from her glass and whispered into her ear, brushing long red tresses over her shoulder. The woman laughed, low and throaty, before passing him what looked like a key.

Figures. Toni sighed. Colten’s head shot up. He peered around as if sensing Toni’s presence. When he looked directly at her, his double-take was almost comical.

Khegh it! Her instincts screamed at her to jump to her feet and flee. But she wouldn’t let him drive her out of here. She could handle this. Besides, he’d probably do all he could to avoid her. Her stomach flipped as he stood. He excused himself from the flirty Nymph and walked straight at Toni, though walked was the wrong word. He never walked. Stalked was a better term. His casual air belied the alertness and strength in his tall frame. He hadn’t changed much. His body was covered head to toe in black, and his hair, now long enough to fall into his eyes, was tied into a tail behind his head. Toni glared up into dark eyes and spied a hint of uncertainty. Good, he didn’t know how she was going to act. Her hand twitched toward her gun.

“Caught cheating at Duilk again?”

“I never cheat.” Brushing a hand over the bruise on her cheek, Toni refused to break eye contact first. He reached out to pull the closest empty chair away from the table. Childishly, she hooked her foot under the wooden frame, halting the move.

He snorted.

Hating that he made her feel so immature, she debated telling him to khegh off or just shooting him. Or … or, she could use him. It would be only fair, right? She released the chair and kicked it out from under the table.

He accepted the unspoken invitation and straddled it, meeting her stare with his own. “I might be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure you swore the next time we met, you’d shoot me.”

Squirming under his gaze, she’d love to tell him what she really wanted. Instead ground her teeth to remain silent.

Jeri appeared, placing two full clear glasses on the table.

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