Dark Hunter 01- Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-05-04T19:50:42+00:00

"Excuse me?"

Esmeralda asked. "What is this?" "Just do it, Essie, I'll explain in a minute."

Reluctantly, Essie followed

Nick's orders. Amanda touched Kyrian's face. "They made a terrible mess of you."

"How's Tabitha?"

Kyrian asked weakly. Amanda was touched by his concern for her sister when he was so hurt himself.

"I'm calling an

ambulance," Esmeralda said, picking up the phone from the end table.

Nick grabbed the phone from

her hands. "No."

The look on Esmeralda's face

would have quelled most men. Nick just glared back at her without flinching.

"It's all right,

Essie," Amanda assured her. "We can't take him to a hospital."

"He's going to die if you

don't."

"No," Nick said,

"he won't."

Esmeralda cocked a

disbelieving brow. "He's not human," Amanda explained.

Esmeralda narrowed her eyes

suspiciously. "What is he, then?"

"He's a vampire."

Rage suffused her face as she

railed against them all. "You brought a vampire into my house? After what happened to Tabitha? My God, Amanda, where was your brain?"

"He's not going to hurt

you," Amanda insisted.

"You're damned straight.

I'm going to call—"

Nick stepped between Esmeralda

and the phone. "You call anyone and I'll rip the phone out of the wall."

"Boy," Essie said in

a warning tone, "don't think for two seconds you—"

"Stop it!" Amanda

shouted.

"Kyrian needs your help,

Esmeralda, and as your little sister, I'm begging you for it."

"Do you—"

"Essie, please."

She saw the indecision warring

in Essie's eyes and knew the thoughts in her mind. On the one hand Esmeralda didn't want to help the evil undead; on the other, she couldn't really say no to her sister.

"Please, Es, I've never

before asked a favor of you."

"Not true. You borrowed

my favorite sweater in high school to wear to that game where Bobby Daniels was playing."

"Es!"

"All right," she

relented, "but if he bites anyone in this house, I'm staking him."

Kyrian lay still while

Esmeralda and Amanda peeled his bloodied clothes from him. He hurt so badly he could barely breathe. Over and over, he saw the Daimons attacking him and he wanted blood. "Let the sun have him." Desiderius's mocking voice rang in his ears.

That bastard would pay. Kyrian

planned to make sure of it. Amanda's heart wrenched at the wounds on Kyrian's body. His forearms and hands were covered with nail holes. Never in her life had she hated anyone, but right then she hated Desiderius with so much passion that if he were here, she'd rip him apart with her bare hands.

She left Kyrian only long

enough to call her parents and check on Tabitha. While Essie bandaged Kyrian, Nick paced the floor.

"What do you want me to

do about Desiderius?" Nick asked Kyrian. "Stay away from him."

"But look at you."

"I'm immortal. I will

survive this. You wouldn't."

"Yeah, well, had we taken

another three minutes to get there, you wouldn't have survived it, either."

"Nick," Amanda

warned. "You're not helping. He needs to rest."

"I'm sorry," he

said, raking a nervous hand through his tousled dark brown hair. "I attack when I'm worried. It's a defense mechanism."

"It's all right,

Nick," Kyrian said. "Go home and get some sleep." His jaw rigid, Nick nodded. He looked at Amanda. "Call me if you need anything."

"I will."

As soon as he was gone,

Esmeralda finished tending Kyrian. "That really must hurt.

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