Nocturne 076 - Wicked Games 03 - The Vampire Affair - Livia Reasoner by Silhouette Nocturne

Author:Silhouette Nocturne [Nocturne, Silhouette]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-16T21:01:04+00:00

Chapter 10

“You son of a bitch!”

He expected her to be angry, so when her hand flashed toward his face he was ready. With his superior speed and reflexes, he caught her wrist without any trouble before she could slap him.

But he wasn’t out of the woods yet, not by any means. Her eyes blazed fiery anger. She swung her other hand at him, and he had to catch hold of that wrist, too. He figured she would probably try to kick him in the groin next, so he was ready to twist aside and take the blow on his thigh

Instead she suddenly sagged, as if all the resistance had gone out of her, and said in a dull voice, “I knew it. You really are a damned fool, Michael. I knew it all along, ever since I overheard you talking to Max and Clifford that first night. I hoped I could change your mind, show you that I was good enough, but...“ Her back stiffened, and her chin rose defiantly. “You can let go of me. I know there’s no point in fighting you.”

Michael wasn’t so sure it would be safe yet to release her wrists. The possibility of her hurting him didn’t worry him, but he didn’t want her getting so upset that she might accidentally hurt herself. And even under the emotionally trying circumstances, the warm feel of her skin against his palms made tingles of pleasure go through him.

The next moment he had other things with which to concern himself, as one of the windows high in the gym wall suddenly shattered. A cylindrical object burst through it with a spray of glass and flew through the air, landing on the polished hardwood floor. It bounced a couple of times, and then rolled toward him and Jessie, trailing a thickening cloud of smoke. Michael’s eyes immediately began to sting.

“Tear gas!” he shouted. Since he already had hold of Jessie’s wrists, he pulled her with him as he turned to run toward the entrance.

That turned out to be a bad move, he realized a second later as several men in black, wearing gas masks, kicked the door open and came in firing the automatic weapons in their hands. Michael veered aside. Bullets chewed up the hardwood floor and sent splinters flying everywhere. He heard Jessie cry out in pain but couldn’t stop to see how badly she’d been hit. He hoped one of the splinters had caught her, not a bullet. He headed for the locker room now, tugging her along behind him. Seconds counted off automatically in his head. The area was an industrial one, mostly warehouses and small businesses, but even so a lot of people were within earshot. Someone would call the cops. Therefore the mercenaries had only a limited amount of time to kill him and Jessie. That the blackclad attackers worked for the vampires was a given. Nobody else had any reason to send hired killers after him.

Jessie coughed and stumbled. The tear gas still spewing from the grenade that had come through the window had gotten to her.

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