When Darkness Falls: Kiss of the Wolf\Shadow Kissing\The Devil She Knew by Susan Krinard; Tanith Lee; Evelyn Vaughn

Author:Susan Krinard; Tanith Lee; Evelyn Vaughn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Paranormal, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781459216761
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2003-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Marcy recognized that cry from over her head. It was Snowball's

"Mommy!" cry, the one she used when she climbed a tree and couldn't get down, or when Marcy got home from a long weekend away, or when someone she disliked disturbed their home. The cat, clearly upset, drew it out into two syllables. " MRO-WUM!"

"Snowball!" Turning toward the call was an instinct even more deeply ingrained than whatever had compelled her to gaze up into Tomas Martinez's tiger eyes and…

And nothing. Of course nothing. The important thing was that Snowball was all right, crouched on top of the refrigerator, green eyes wide and accusing, white fur puffed spikily along her spine.

Marcy raised a hand to her and Snowball completed the ritual by Susan Krinard, Tanith Lee, Evelyn Vaughn - When Darkness Falls delicately sniffing, making sure Marcy was no imitation.

" MROWR!" the cat then wailed in displeasure, opening her mouth wide, showing most of her sharp little teeth.

"Oh, poor baby." Marcy reached over her head to catch Snowball and draw the cat's silky, warm body to her towel-wrapped breasts. "Were you up there the whole time? I was so scared!"

The towel began to slip. Marcy caught it up again. Snowball helped.

Marcy didn't believe in declawing.

"Mommy was so scared for her baby," she murmured, kissing the sleek top of Snowball's head before the cat burrowed into the crook of her elbow, the way she might at the vet's. Marcy felt so relieved, she didn't even care if Tomas heard her talking baby talk, or referring to herself in the third person. "She was so scared."

"Mommy should be scared," Tomas reminded her, finally stepping away from the bedroom doorway. Either he figured nothing was coming after them from there—or he figured something was.

"Mommy has a gate to Hell in her closet!"

Marcy felt somehow more sane hearing that he, too, thought it was a gate to Hell. Naming something gives one power over it, right? That's what her magic books said…

Then she remembered she couldn't necessarily trust her magic books.

"That's what it looked like to me, too, but I wasn't sure… I mean, how could it be?"

Tomas said, "I can't fix hell."

No, she didn't imagine he could, no matter how complete his toolbox.

She shouldn't have called him here, gotten him involved, gotten him injured.

And yet she was so glad he was here. As relieved as she felt to have an armful of Snowball again—to be gently rubbing behind the cat's ear, to feel Snowball's purring attempt to comfort them both—Marcy was just as relieved not to be alone in her kitchen, her apartment, her dilemma. Even if she was a horrible person for involving Tomas, even if she'd somehow damned herself—

—further—

—she was so very glad to have him here that she could have wept Susan Krinard, Tanith Lee, Evelyn Vaughn - When Darkness Falls with relief.

If she was lucky, she could weep on his shoulder. It really was some shoulder.

Even better was when, with a single nod, he took charge.

"Come on," he said decisively, striding toward the front door.

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