A Tale of Two Vampires: A Dark Ones Novel by Katie MacAlister

Author:Katie MacAlister
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101602638
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2012-09-03T21:00:00+00:00

The Incredible Adventures of Iolanthe Tennyson

July 15

The noise was what woke me up. It was a horrible, strangled sort of noise, one that suddenly became very loud and annoying, and disrupted my happy little sleep.

I frowned when the noise increased to a volume that irritated my nerves, frowning even more when the lovely warmth that surrounded me suddenly darkened. I opened one eye and looked up into the disheveled face of a man.

A very handsome man with black hair, and the most gorgeous eyes the color of a pale blue topaz.

A man who looked familiar.

“I bloody well should look familiar, since you were riding me just a few hours ago. Why the devil did you try to asphyxiate me with my own coat? Is it because I insisted that you be the one to seduce me? Or was that your way of starting some very curious form of lovemaking? If it is the latter, I must inform you that I will not have it. I am a fair man, a generous man, a man who is willing to let his woman seduce him if that is her desire, but I do not find having my vision and breathing obstructed in any manner titillating. Henceforth, you will leave off the rough lovemaking, and return to the sort where you apply your naked flesh to mine in a more congenial manner.”

“Nikola?” I asked, as slowly the shadowed recesses of my brain brightened with dawning enlightenment. I opened the other eye and for a few seconds wondered what the hell had happened. I went ahead and asked him. “Why do you look like you’ve been dragged through a hedge backward? Why is your face all red?”

“Why did you bind my head and tie me to Thor?” he countered.

“Huh?” I sat up, and immediately the world spun around me. Nikola grabbed my arms and held me for the few seconds it took for everything to resume its proper place. “Oh, man, what was I drinking last night? I have the hangover to end all hangovers.”

“You have not been hung, although I believe I would be within my rights to throttle you. Are you well?”

This last was said with much more concern than the former, and after a minute of letting my brain get back to the business of running my body, I nodded. “Just a bit woozy, although I don’t quite understand what you’re talking about.”

“This,” he said, gesturing toward his boot. The remnants of a piece of white cloth fluttered from his ankle. “And that.”

I looked at where he pointed, and saw a big horse happily grazing a few yards from us, another white cloth dangling from one stirrup.

“That’s…that’s…” I closed my eyes for a moment to try to remember the horse’s name.

“Thor.”

“Thor! That’s right. Oh, holy Jesus!” With the mention of the name, the full memory of the terrifying flight through the woods returned to me. I got to my knees, holding on to Nikola’s arm as I quickly looked around us, half expecting to see one of his horrible brothers lurking in the shadows of the trees.

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