Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen

Author:Michelle Rowen [Rowen, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-02T18:17:02+00:00

chapter 15

I froze. After the conversation I’d just had with Natalie, he was the last person I was prepared to see right now. And yet, when my heart started beating faster, I knew it wasn’t just from surprise. I couldn’t look anywhere but at him. He was framed by moonlight and his gaze immediately locked with mine. His scent—warm, tempting, addictive—

immediately affected me as if he’d just pul ed me into his embrace.

Kraven stood next to him. Roth and Zach were nowhere to be seen. Believe me, the first thing I did after getting past the shock of seeing Bishop was to check the area for the demon who’d broken my neck last night.

“Hey, sweetness,” Kraven greeted me, his eyes sweeping the length of me with a leering edge.

“Looking good tonight.

I hope you didn’t get al hot just for little ol’ me.”

Ignoring the demon was becoming a habit.

Bishop didn’t say anything at al , which surprised me until I realized that he didn’t appear to be completely lucid. It had been a whole day since I’d last touched him to help take the crazy away. I wanted to touch him right now, even after my IN PROCESS EDITION

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mind-jarring conversation with Natalie. I wanted so much to help him, to trust him.

But I forced myself to hang back.

He seemed to struggle to hold on to his concentration. His jaw was set as his gaze f licked to the club behind me before it narrowed into a glare.

“Why, Samantha?”

“Why what?”

“He means ‘why are you here when it’s so horribly dangerous and he’s worried about his little girlfriend,’” Kraven paraphrased with a smirk. At Bishop’s sharp look, he shrugged.

“Just trying to help.”

I shifted my feet. “Half-price chicken wings on Tuesdays.

That’s why.”

Bishop laughed and the sound made me jump. His gaze twisted into me and suddenly it felt more threatening, almost like how he’d looked at me that night in the al ey when he realized what I was.

Natalie’s warning about him being my enemy echoed in my mind.

“Shouldn’t be here,” he said in that broken-up, staccato way of his when he wasn’t completely lucid.

“Not again. Bad things play here.”

“You told me to act normal. Coming here is normal.”

That earned me an even sourer look. He opened his mouth as if to argue, but closed it. The heat of his glare made my heart race even faster.

Kraven seemed happy to take over. “It’s naughty and you know it. We’re here to check the place out. We were here earlier today, too, but there wasn’t anything interesting to see.” Of course they were.

Even though Stephen had told Bishop the Source never came here, why would he believe that?

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attention now on Carly who was studying him back just as intently. “Looks like you’re not the only cute gray in the general vicinity.”

This wasn’t a double date in the making between the four of us.

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