Blood Shadows by Lindsay J. Pryor

Author:Lindsay J. Pryor [Pryor, Lindsay J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: paranormal romance
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2012-11-20T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Caitlin woke up not knowing if it was day or night, but as she opened her eyes she could see Kane lying next to her in bed. Ironically she couldn’t remember the last time she had slept so well or woken feeling so safe.

He lay acquiescently on his back, torso exposed, his head turned slightly in her direction. The sheet was low on his flat stomach, barely covering his hips and groin. He was still naked. His left arm lay between them, his right under his head as if basking on a summer’s day. He appeared to be sleeping soundly and peacefully.

This was Kane Malloy with his defences down. Something, she was sure, only a rare few ever saw. Females he’d brought into his bed and trusted enough to stay the night. Maybe one or two close friends, if he had any.

In the minutes she stared at him she only saw his chest move once. Aside from that, he could almost look human. The curve of those thick lashes concealing those preternaturally compelling eyes, the lethal incisors hidden behind those closed bow lips. She gazed down his honed, taut chest, examining every defined muscle, his tattoos, up over the curve of his broad, strong shoulder, the biceps that had held her down with such ease. Her master vampire. Her dark prince who lay asleep next to her, oblivious to her thoughts as she looked at that hard, cold chest. She could so easily make contact, wait for the pulse, that all important beat that would give her a true glimmer inside of him, that would finally allow her to get inside him.

But it was also a touch that would inevitably wake him.

He could have been that way for minutes or hours, but it had happened. It had finally happened. She should have felt elated. Instead she felt an ache in her chest at what she knew she had to do.

As she gazed at him, she knew more than ever that she needed to get out of there. She was already feeling an intensity she’d never thought possible. As strong as her feelings had been for Rob, she’d never felt like this. Even on the day he’d left her, she hadn’t felt that gut-wrenching pang like she did right then.

There was something about Kane. Something inexplicable. Something that had burrowed deep from the first time she’d seen him. Even as he’d pinned her up against the wall in that corridor, she’d felt she’d known him. But now, in his bed, as up close and personal as she could get, even after what they’d done, she knew she was feeling something more.

Something he was never going to feel back. He was never going to feel anything for the neurotic, detached, awkward, sexually inept VCU agent who had once got the better of him. To him it was all a game. A game he was a master at – getting people to fall for him, beguiling them into getting his own way. And he had been right.

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