Necessary Evil: A Monster Romance (Kingdom of Monsters Book 2) by Harper A. Brooks

Author:Harper A. Brooks [Brooks, Harper A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter

Fifteen

Wels

It starts pouring rain around two a.m.

The others are talking low. I can hear them through the open doors. It’s too dangerous to shut them and too dangerous for us to be with Stella in the same bed, even if we all fit.

That almost makes me smile as I stare up at the shadows on the ceiling. We could do it. Which would be precisely the problem.

And Stella… She breathes soft and evenly, finally having fallen asleep.

I swore her to secrecy. I need a better picture before I take this to the noble prince in cruel dark clothing and his faithful sidekick, who will mostly likely go off and get himself killed.

Yes, it might still happen that we won’t all make it, but running off without the full picture most certainly will.

And something tells me Stella is key in more ways than one. The amplification of our magic. Her own magic, I don’t understand, and she has no real idea about.

The woman I wanted to talk to tomorrow is here. I think I need to move that talk up to now. With a sigh, I get up and close and lock the joining door, both for protection for Stella and to let the other two know I’m heading out.

When I reach the bar, Cyric nods and cuts his eyes to a beautiful sylphlike creature with burnished skin and long lustrous black hair. She’s a half-breed. Half shifter, half Chimera—a powerful creature, and beautiful as her are rare here. In her true form, she would be magnificent, my type if I hadn’t met Stella. Tail that’s a snake, goat’s head on her back and lioness body and head. And she breathed fire. Her shifting side was not anywhere near as strong as mine, but then again, to be able to turn into a Chimera without effort…

Oh, yeah. I’d fuck her gorgeous brains out, once upon a time.

I’m not sure of her morals or motives, and that suits me. I go up and order a drink. “What brings you here on a night like tonight?”

She turns and her eyes are cat green, with golden flecks and the diamond pupil of a cat. Her full lips curve into a sensuous smile. “Pick up line, Wels?”

Cyric deposits a drink in front of me and refills her glass.

“My reputation precedes me, Ilirya?”

She laughs, full and throaty, and it does wicked things to my libido. She has real power, and it slides around me, not looking for a way in but a tease and exploration, and it’s akin to being felt up in both the right and wrong ways.

But I don’t want her, and I throw up a wall.

She laughs again. “My reputation precedes me?”

“Yours is known across the land, but you only come out to play when it suits.”

“That’s the cat in me, shapeshifter.”

“So…” I look at her a long time. “Are you here for a reason?”

She shrugs. “You’re a beautiful man.” Ilirya touches my hair. “I like gold, and danger.”

My cock throbs at that. I subtly strengthen the walls.

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