Demon's Kiss by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-06-18T07:00:00+00:00

Jack had spent the entire encounter, minus its final minute or so, feeling extremely pleased with himself. She still wanted him. That much was clear. That he still wanted her just as much didn’t really enter into it. He was male, she was hot and quite possibly the best sex he’d ever had. Naturally he still wanted her. It didn’t mean anything.

For her, however, it did. It must. She was female. They were emotional things by nature. He’d stolen from her, used her, hurt her, abandoned and betrayed her, and she still had it bad for him.

Damn, he must be better than even he had realized.

Of course, the kiss had hit him a little harder than he’d anticipated, and not wanting to reveal that, he’d had to cover by insulting her. It was second nature. Keep them close enough, just not too close.

At any rate, all those thoughts had dissipated when she’d made her cryptic comment about his impending doom, and then they’d vanished entirely when he’d realized that her presence on the grounds had been discovered.

He stood there now, grinning like an idiot at the two members of what he had dubbed Gregor’s Goon-Squad—the GGS for short. God, they were all so alike—Gregor chose them that way. Weak-minded and bulky, they looked enough alike to have been blood kin in life. Beetling foreheads, eyes a tad too close together, thick necks. Big heads full of dark hair, and bearded. All of them. Why Gregor insisted on that, Jack couldn’t be certain. His best guess—to make it easy to tell them apart from the full-blooded vampires.

Though he wasn’t quite sure what made them less than full-blooded. And he had to admit to a burning curiosity, though he wouldn’t break his neck trying to find out. It was no skin off his nose either way.

The drones lumbered up to him and stopped.

“I sensed a presence, too,” he lied. “Came out to check, but there’s no one. Maybe around back—”

Before he could finish, he heard and sensed something that made his stomach turn, and he turned to see two more of the oversized, under-witted vampire drones dragging Topaz between them. Dammit to hell, where had they come from?

Her face was bruising already, silken hair hanging in her eyes, sexy dress—the one he was sure she’d put on just for him—torn. The slit that had reached to just below her hip now gaped to the curve of her waist, revealing the slender band of the thong panties she wore underneath it. One vampire clutched each of her arms, and he knew they were holding her far harder than was necessary.

She lifted her head, met his eyes.

Jack averted his, because he couldn’t stand seeing her in pain. He liked women. This one in particular. He didn’t approve of, much less have the stomach for, harming them—at least not physically. Financially, emotionally, those were entirely different things.

“Nice work, men,” he said, forcing a smile of approval. “How about I take her from here, then?”

“How about I do?”

The voice was Gregor’s, and it came from behind him.

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