Angel's Pain by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Mira Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Reaper hung up the phone, got to his feet and reached a hand down for Briar. She ignored it and got up on her own. "Did you gel all that?" he asked.

She nodded. "All except why you're trusting this jerk. And why you told him you were coming alone."

"I'm trusting him because I don't have a choice. We have to get to Crisa."

"And Gregor," she said, lowering her eyes. "He's there, too."

"If Dwyer's telling the truth, yes."

She nodded.

"I'm going to kill him, you know. Whether you end up hating me tor it or not, it's what needs to be done,"

She met his eyes, held them for a long moment and decided not to tell him that her only objection to that plan was that she would prefer to do the killing herself. And she intended to. But if believing she still had some twisted up feelings for Gregor would keep Reaper at arm's length for the remainder of their time together, it was for the best that he keep on believing it.

"You were faking before," she said. "In the car you pretended to lose consciousness when I took your blood."

"If I hadn't, you'd have kept drinking until I lost it for real. I thought it would be best."

She nodded.

"That wasn't very nice of you, Briar. Trying to knock me out."

"I'm not a very nice person. Or haven't you figured that out yet?"

They began walking, heading for the nearby town where Dwyer had promised a car would be waiting. He didn't reach for her hand again. She told herself she was glad.

"You wanted to stop me from trying to see through the mask you wear. From probing your mind with mine."

"I wanted to shut you up."

"You screwed yourself over, though. You know that, right?"

She frowned and sent him a disgusted look. "I don't know any such thing."

"No? Stop walking for a minute."

She stopped walking, unsure where he was going with this. "We don't have time for another round, cowboy."

"Just stand still for a minute," he said. So she did. And there was silence, aside from the breeze and the passing traffic every now and then. "Now close your eyes and open your senses."

She closed her eyes, opened her senses. And she felt a heartbeat. It was strong and steady, and it wasn't her own, yet it seemed to beat in synch with her pulse.

"I live inside you now, Briar. You drank me into you. Do you feel me there?"

She did. And it suffused her with a mixture of warmth, sexual desire and panic. She popped her eyes open. "I don't feel a damn thing."

"Liar." His cell phone rang, and she started walking again, thanking the fates for the distraction and picking up the pace. The lights of town were in sight now. They were nearly there.

"Hey, Roxy," he said, as he flipped it open. "You can call the others. I have it on good authority that Gregor is in Connecticut."

"Well his drones aren't," Roxy said.

"What do you mean?"

"Seth and Vixen are surrounded by the bastards.

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