Deep Desire: The Deep Series, Book 1 by Z.A. Maxfield

Author:Z.A. Maxfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampire;academics;romance;m/m;gay;adventure;suspense;paranormal
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Adin’s mind drifted lazily away from his body as Boaz drove. It began to occur to him that the trip back to the hotel was taking a great deal longer than the trip to the bar. He opened a swollen eye to look around and realized they’d probably driven over the bridge into Sausalito. He’d probably slept. Soon the sun would begin to glow on the horizon, and nothing he saw was familiar to him.

“Boaz?” he asked, suddenly startled out of his dreamlike state. “Where are we? Where are you taking me?”

“I’m not allowed to say, sir,” Boaz replied. “I’m very sorry for the inconvenience.”

“This is more than inconvenient, Boaz. It’s kidnapping. It’s a criminal offense.” Adin’s throat tightened. “Please take me back to the hotel. I believe I’ve learned whatever lesson you wanted to teach me.”

Boaz eyed him in the rearview mirror. “You can’t imagine that I wanted you to experience that, Dr. Tredeger.”

Adin looked out the window, contemplating the sadness in Boaz’s voice. “No, I don’t suppose you did. What was that about, Boaz? I thought you said that Donte marked me in some way as his property. That no one would challenge him.’

“That would usually be the case, sir.” Boaz hesitated, as if choosing his words very carefully. “It’s been my experience that no one in this area would ever consider challenging Donte Fedeltà.”

“So I’m special? I’m vampire crack?”

“No, sir, I doubt that. I don’t think so. It appears someone has decided to move on Donte, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

“Ah.” Adin sighed. He fingered his broken watch, mourning the loss. “My lucky day.”

“I’m sorry, sir. I should have stayed closer. I didn’t see any of this coming. I don’t know what Donte will say when he sees—”

“Is that where we’re going? To Donte? What if I were to say that I want to go back to the hotel, right now, Boaz? I don’t want to see him.”

“I wouldn’t necessarily believe you.”

“I don’t want him to see me.” Adin held his shaking hands out where he could see them. “Not like this.”

“I can assure you, he’s seen much worse.”

Adin gingerly probed a particularly painful place near his eye and imagined he had a spectacular bruise. “Do I look as bad as I feel?”

“Probably.”

“Take me to the Kabuki, Boaz. There’s no point in Donte seeing me when I look like—”

“We’re here, sir.” Boaz paused the limo at the entrance of what could only be described as an estate. There was no sign or name at the entrance, but the gates opened automatically, and Boaz negotiated the long car through the narrow entry. He continued along a tree-lined driveway until a spectacular house came into view.

The home had the charm of a Tuscan holiday villa, a stone structure with climbing vines of all shapes and colors covering the walls on the outside, carefully pruned back around the windows and doors. In the distance, lit with landscape lighting, Adin could see an orchard on the right and a garden on the left with a fountain and large, shady trees.

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